A Hundred Years Peace: The Signature of the Treaty of Ghent between Great Britain and the United States of America, December 24, 1814


Permanent ID:
8510
Call number:
Bc 907 F717
Date:
December 24 1814
Image Description:
Artistic rendering of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent between Great Britain and the United States to end the War of 1812. Depicted on the left-hand side are British delegates Anthony St. John Baker (Secretary), William Adams (Plenipotentiary), Henry Goulburn (Plenipotentiary), and Admiral Lord Gambier (Chief Plenipotentiary). Depicted on the right-hand side are American delegates John Quincy Adams (Chief Plenipotentiary), Albert Gallatin (Plenipotentiary), Christopher Hughes (Secretary), James A. Bayard (Plenipotentiary), Henry Clay (Plenipotentiary), and Jonathan Russell (Plenipotentiary).

This print, produced in 1914, marks one hundred years without formal war between Great Britain and the United States.
Inscription:
Forestier 1914 (Recto, bottom left-hand corner)
Dimensions:
Width: 64 cm, Height: 51 cm (image)