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[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation] / Cornelius Tiebout sculp.

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[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation] / Cornelius Tiebout sculp.

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Print shows cherubs unrolling a scroll inscribed "New Map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys" above which is an eagle sitting on a globe and on the right is an American flag.

Illus. in: The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America ... / William Gordon, D.D. New-York : Printed by Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, ..., 1789, v. 1, frontispiece.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 901.

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01/01/1789
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Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832, engraver
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