![]() Democracy’s birth in Greece and the years of the Roman Republic was a touchstone for those who stood against absolutism and oligarchy. Like much revolutionary symbolism and rhetoric of the eighteenth century, the liberty cap had classical roots. ![]() Once the United States was established, however, the personification of Liberty posing with the cap largely fell away. In France, artists portrayed American revolutionaries with the cap “atop the frame as a symbolic attribute.” You would know America on French maps by the caps drawn there. Scholar Yvonne Korshak traces the cap’s iconographic effervescence in revolutionary America and its rather quick demise in the early republic. ![]() ![]()
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