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Personification of the Americas in Meissen porcelain, c. 1760, from a set of the Four Continents. The earliest type of personification of the Americas, seen in European art from the 16th century onwards, reflected the tropical regions in South and Central America from which the earliest European travelers reported back.
The first personification images made by Europeans settled in America included some versions of the European types, including engravings by Paul Revere, but such European-Americans were not long happy being symbolised by Native Americans, with whom they were often at war. [19]
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...
The earliest known personification of the United States was as a woman named Columbia, who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with another female personification, Lady Liberty. With the American Revolutionary War of 1775 came Brother Jonathan , a male personification.
Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction ... The First Female Symbols of America", Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 100: 50 ...
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This is the first panel and the only allegorical one, portraying a personification of America, wearing a liberty cap, with spear and shield in the center, surrounded by other allegorical figures. To the right is a Native American maiden with a bow and arrows, representing the wild North American continent.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Citizens and nationals of the United States This article is about the people of the United States of America. For a background on their demonym, see American (word). For other uses, see American (disambiguation) and The Americans (disambiguation). For the legal term, see United States ...