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Exhibition History"Patriotic Folk Art," Yorktown Victory Center, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, November 19, 1979 - June 14, 1980.
“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Liberty Cap
Date1800-1825
MediumWood
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (26.7 × 55.2 cm)
Object numberN0367.1954
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mary Allis
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThe Liberty Cap, based on caps that were given to enslaved people who had been freed in ancient Rome, became a symbol of liberty in 18th-century England. The Liberty Cap was adopted by the fledgling United States immediately after the American Revolution. This sculpture was perhaps meant to be carried in a parade.Exhibition History"Patriotic Folk Art," Yorktown Victory Center, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, November 19, 1979 - June 14, 1980.
“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
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