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Washington and the American Republic – Historic Print

Washington and the American Republic, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Washington and the American Republic, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Washington collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Washington and the American Republic comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This engraving presents George Washington as the figure through whom the young republic is represented, a common approach in patriotic prints of the nineteenth century. J. Rogers cut the plate from a drawing by MacLenan, and the card's subject tags point to January 1777, when Washington's army was active in New Jersey after its winter crossing of the Delaware. A Lossing reference on the card suggests the scene drew on Benson Lossing's popular histories of the Revolution. No date is recorded for the print itself, so it is best read as a later patriotic image of the war rather than a record made at the time.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesEngraving by J. Rogers, after drawing by MacLenan. Washington and the American Republic"
Subjectsold data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist.--Jan 1777; BF--Lossing; BI--Works; Artist
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,055 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135100

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