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English: Preliminary version of the Great Seal of the United States by Charles Thomson, the Secretary of Congress. Three separate committees had tried and failed to come up with a suitable design for a national seal which satisfied the Continental Congress; Thomson then took elements from all the preceding designs and came up with this version, which is very close to the final design. William Barton made some further refinements before the final report was submitted. Thomson's description of this design:
Barton changed the stripes on the shield to be paleways (vertical), changed the presentation of the eagle to be "displayed" (wings spread and elevated) instead of "rising", specified 13 arrows, and wrote a more properly heraldic description. Their final report was accepted and became the official Great Seal. There was no drawing in the final report; only the description. |
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Source | Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782) (direct PDF URL [1]) | |||
Author | en:Charles Thomson (1729 – 1824) | |||
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