Independence

If any single man willed the United States into being, it was John Adams. Blunt, brilliant, and relentless, he pressed for a clean break from Britain while much of Congress still hoped for reconciliation — and it was Adams who rose again and again to argue the case for independence.

On July 2, 1776, Congress finally voted to sever all ties with the Crown. Adams was so certain of the moment's weight that he wrote to his wife Abigail that the day would be remembered forever, “solemnized with Pomp and Parade… Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.”

He was right about the celebration, if off by two days. The principle he fought for became the founding creed of the republic — and a single-word declaration for anyone who still refuses to bow.

Printed on 200 gsm matte poster stock and mounted behind shatter-resistant acrylic in a 22 mm deep pine frame, available in black, natural wood or dark wood. The print is fitted into the frame before it ships, so it arrives assembled with hanging hardware in place, ready for a portrait or landscape wall.