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The picture is a pyramid, and the flag is its point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberty takes the apex in a white gown and red cap with a blue sash, the striped flag streaming above her and a musket in her other hand. A drummer boy crouches at her feet where Delacroix's boy stood. A Continental in a blue coat faced with red shouts at the left, and a frontiersman in a fringed hunting shirt kneels at the right with his rifle. Two dead redcoats lie across the foreground, one in a grenadier's bearskin, and a steeple burns on the horizon under a sky the color of gunsmoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dead are in the front row and the light is the color of smoke. What leads the line is not a person but an idea, which is how the war was won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach piece is printed on 200 gsm enhanced uncoated fine art paper with a twelve-color pigment process, which holds a wider tonal range than ordinary four-color printing. The print is mounted and set behind shatter-resistant acrylic in a 22 mm deep frame — solid wood in white, natural or dark, or aluminum in black. It arrives assembled, hardware fitted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e200 gsm (80 lb) enhanced uncoated fine art paper, matte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve-color pigment process — wider tonal range than four-color CMYK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrame 22 mm deep: solid wood in white, natural or dark; aluminum in black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShatter-resistant acrylic glazing, not glass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMounted and assembled before it ships — no assembly at your end\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHanging hardware included, for portrait or landscape hanging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFree shipping nationwide · Printed and framed in the USA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canvas of America","offers":[{"title":"12x18″ \/ White frame","offer_id":58430295179608,"sku":"83617632-3f0f-4408-bc11-ab2e3c7fec96","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x18″ \/ Wood frame","offer_id":58430295081304,"sku":"00adeea4-01e8-4277-8d7d-7876621e801f","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x18″ \/ Dark wood frame","offer_id":58430294983000,"sku":"cca9bdb2-4d53-412c-8644-e881e7eb0439","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x18″ \/ Black frame","offer_id":58430295146840,"sku":"3b6f2bd9-cf22-4b1a-8e46-ac4d60490af1","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x24″ \/ White frame","offer_id":58430295376216,"sku":"ebd71598-a8f5-4476-8690-342aac913d75","price":169.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x24″ \/ Wood frame","offer_id":58430295343448,"sku":"ad7ec052-550c-47db-8fc1-1c911ddf4ed1","price":169.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x24″ \/ Dark wood frame","offer_id":58430295048536,"sku":"37eae7c9-b16d-4a18-9888-203440107303","price":169.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x24″ \/ Black frame","offer_id":58430295441752,"sku":"3982a14e-ce5f-4cbc-a1c1-ec46d47f5342","price":169.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36″ \/ White frame","offer_id":58430295277912,"sku":"4b5449ca-74b0-4ddd-a4d5-9527b2753e11","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36″ \/ Wood frame","offer_id":58430295310680,"sku":"b709c545-22bc-4130-8022-7ce2b48efb88","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36″ \/ Dark wood frame","offer_id":58430295212376,"sku":"bf87c98b-b16d-4719-9345-b40e3ac1cf60","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36″ \/ Black frame","offer_id":58430295245144,"sku":"74c9a46a-277f-4d70-806a-c11803fe28ed","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"28x40″ \/ White frame","offer_id":58430295408984,"sku":"1d54beb9-2465-427b-beb3-30fa8cd157ae","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"28x40″ \/ Wood frame","offer_id":58430295114072,"sku":"74cdb6a1-f168-4d58-9a5a-179d6d6782bf","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"28x40″ \/ Dark wood frame","offer_id":58430295015768,"sku":"f5a87fd9-bb79-4bec-8d01-6836a8aeb86d","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"28x40″ \/ Black frame","offer_id":58430295474520,"sku":"0752c500-c357-4ed6-b252-808a5b3e027c","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0861\/3475\/1576\/files\/coa-pdp-liberty-leads-the-line--1-studio.jpg?v=1789034561","url":"https:\/\/canvasofamerica.com\/products\/liberty-leads-the-line","provider":"Canvas of America","version":"1.0","type":"link"}