Nobody seems to have noticed that the source for the cartoon is NOT the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but the 12’ x 18’ John Trumbull mural, commissioned in 1817 and placed in the Capitol in 1826, of the Declaration of Independence Committee (Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Livingston, Sherman) presenting their draft to Congress. The scene itself is usually mistaken to be the signing of the Declaration, further mistaken as being done on July 4th, when, in fact only John Hancock signed the handwritten draft that day, and most didn’t sign the engrossed parchment document until August 2nd.
Mike should have gone with the Howard Christy painting of the “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” which hangs along the east stairway of the House of Reps.
Nobody seems to have noticed that the source for the cartoon is NOT the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but the 12’ x 18’ John Trumbull mural, commissioned in 1817 and placed in the Capitol in 1826, of the Declaration of Independence Committee (Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Livingston, Sherman) presenting their draft to Congress. The scene itself is usually mistaken to be the signing of the Declaration, further mistaken as being done on July 4th, when, in fact only John Hancock signed the handwritten draft that day, and most didn’t sign the engrossed parchment document until August 2nd.
Mike should have gone with the Howard Christy painting of the “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” which hangs along the east stairway of the House of Reps.