In the hot summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson rented rooms at the corner of Seventh and High (Market) Streets in Philadelphia. John Adams (center) and Benjamin Franklin (left) joined him there to review a draft of an important document. This scene depicts them discussing and drafting new language for what would become the Declaration of Independence. The city of Philadelphia was the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention.

The artist, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris called his series of historical paintings, "The Pageant of a Nation," and the Library of Congress owns many fine components of this work.

The artist was born in 1863 and named for a noted French painter. Ferris' father, Stephen James, painted portraits professionally and his maternal uncle, Thomas Moran, painted Western landscapes that helped convince Congress to develop national parks.

Ferris first studied with his father and then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Academie Julian in Paris and the South Kensington School in London.

At age 37, at the turn of the century, Ferris turned his talents to portraying personages and events in American history. About 70 of these paintings hang in Congress Hall in Philadelphia.

The framed size is 17 x 20

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