Excerpt from Edward Savage Painter and Engraver: And His Unfinished Copper-Plate At the meeting of this Society held in November of 1859, there was presented, from Samuel T. Sw, a copper-plate engraving of the Declaration of Independence by an unkwn artist; together with the 00pper-plate its-elf. 1 The plate was done in the stipple manner and was unfinished. After a few impressions were struck off, it was placed in the repository of the Society, where it has since remained. Researches made by me during the past few years have resulted in ascertaining just what this picture was, and who was the unkwn artist who engraved the copper-plate presented by Mr. Sw well on to half a century ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.