This strip of four 13-cent stamps picturing the signing of the declaration of independence was issued at the bicentennial in 1976. It reproduces a panorama of the painting by john trumbull hanging in the u. S. Capitol rotunda. Object Type: painting. Genre: history painting. Date: 4 July 1976. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: height: 366 cm (12 ft) ; width: 549 cm (18 ft). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: George Washington, William Whipple, Josiah Bartlett, Thomas Lynch, Benjamin Harrison V, Richard Henry Lee, Samuel Adams, George Clinton, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Lewis Morris, William Floyd, Arthur Middleton, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Walton, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, George Clymer, Robert Morris, Thomas Willing, Benjamin Rush, Elbridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine, Abraham Clark, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, James Wilson, Francis Hopkinson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Stockton, Francis Lewis, John Witherspoon, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, Charles Thomson. Collection: National Portrait Gallery. 13-cent Declaration strip of four 1976 U.S. stamp.1
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