Washington crossing the Delaware: on the evening of Dec 25th. 1776, previous to the battle of Trenton – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Washington crossing the Delaware: on the evening of Dec 25th. 1776, previous to the battle of Trenton. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington crossing the Delaware: on the evening of Dec 25th. 1776, previous to the battle of Trenton
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Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph in 1876, the centennial year of the Declaration of Independence, to show George Washington leading his troops across the icy Delaware River on the night of December 25, 1776. The title places the scene on the evening before the Battle of Trenton, a surprise attack on Hessian garrison troops that followed the crossing and helped revive the Continental cause after a run of defeats. The print belongs to a long popular tradition of Revolutionary War imagery, and its bright hand coloring reflects the firm's commercial method of reaching middle-class American homes in the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7057. |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Military service. Trenton, Battle of, Trenton, N.J., 1776. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,373 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175249 |
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