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\n\tAlongside Donald Trump\u2019s face, you can expect to soon see a piece of American art history on your US passport.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs reported yesterday by Fox News<\/em>, Trump\u2019s State Department has revealed a limited-edition passport for the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary that will feature John Trumbull\u2019s 1817 painting Declaration of Independence<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tContrary to popular belief, the 18-foot-long painting does not depict the signing of its titular document but merely the presentation of a draft of it Congress in 1776. (Fox News<\/em>, which had the exclusive on the new passport design, itself erroneously reported that the painting represents the signing of the Declaration of the Independence.) Some 42 of the Declaration of Independence\u2019s signatories are present, though Trumbull, one of the most celebrated American painters of his day, had initially intended to feature the remaining 14.<\/p>\n \n\tThe painting is held in the US Capitol Rotunda, though a smaller version of it can also be found in the American art galleries of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. An engraving by Asher B. Durand based on Trumbull\u2019s composition helped the painting gain nationwide fame, as did the painting\u2019s appearance on the now defunct $2 bill.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Trumbull painting is shown in the passport opposite Trump\u2019s portrait, which floats atop the Declaration of Independence. On the passport\u2019s back, there\u2019s an American flag with a \u201c250\u201d inset where the stars typically appear.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAs the United States celebrates America\u2019s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed U.S. passports to commemorate this historic occasion,\u201d a State Department spokesperson told Fox News<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe department said that the passports would be available to \u201cany American citizen,\u201d and that they would remain that way until the limited-edition run was sold out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/john-trumbull-declaration-independence-us-passports-trump-1234783073\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/070222-2000w-us-capitol-rotunda-painting-trumbull-declaration-independence.jpg?w=1024″] Alongside Donald Trump\u2019s face, you can expect to soon see a piece of American art history on your US passport. As reported yesterday by Fox News, Trump\u2019s State Department has revealed a limited-edition passport for the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary that will feature John Trumbull\u2019s 1817 painting Declaration of Independence. Contrary to popular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1910269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1910269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}