This is a drawing featuring a large circular medallion with two distinct engraved figures, a bust adorned with laurels, a robed figure holding a staff, a uniformed figure with a musket, a cannon, and cannonballs.
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Design for an Emblem of the State of South Carolina

Christian Schussele (American, 1824 - 1879)

c. 1860

Medium
pen and black ink with wash on heavy wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 23.18 × 33.97 cm (9 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund, 1951)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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