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Oil on canvas; w641 x h768 cm. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, c. 1763
Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)