Major General Winfield Scott. General in chief, United States Army – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Major General Winfield Scott. General in chief, United States Army comes to life in this antique lithograph, 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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Major General Winfield Scott. General in chief, United States Army
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Winfield Scott appears here with the title "General in chief, United States Army," a rank that marks him as the army's top officer. Published in New York around 1846, this color lithograph appeared just as the Mexican War was beginning. Scott went on to lead the 1847 campaign that moved American forces from the coast at Veracruz to Mexico City. Printmakers of the period sold likenesses like this one to a public eager for military heroes, and the portrait shows how Scott was becoming a symbol of national pride as the country's attention turned toward the war.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1846. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | No. 99. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4241. |
| Subjects | Scott, Winfield,--1786-1866--Military service. Mexican War, 1846-1848--Military personnel--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,049 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174903 |
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