This is an image of the United States Declaration of Independence (article – text). This image is a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile — Stone may well have used a wet pressing process (that removed ink from the original document onto a contact sheet for the purpose of making the engraving). Date: 4 July 1776 (ratification); 1776-07-02 (approval and signing). Author original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone. Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Forside 1776 This is an image of the United States Declaration of Independence (article - text). This image is a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile — Stone may well have used a wet pressing process (that removed ink from the original document onto a contact sheet for the purpose of making the engraving). Date: 4 July 1776 (ratification); 1776-07-02 (approval and signing). Author original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone. Public Domain.
This is an image of the United States Declaration of Independence (article – text). This image is a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile — Stone may well have used a wet pressing process (that removed ink from the original document onto a contact sheet for the purpose of making the engraving). Date: 4 July 1776 (ratification); 1776-07-02 (approval and signing). Author original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone. Public Domain.
![Declaration of Independence, 4. juli 1776. Oil on canvas painted in 1819 by John Trumbull (1756–1843) depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Collection: United States Capitol. Source/Photographer: US Capitol. Public Domain. Se below 4 July 1776.](https://socbib.dk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence-scaled.jpg)