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Washington And His Generals – Vintage Print

Washington And His Generals, c. 1870 — antique engraving
Washington And His Generals, c. 1870. Antique engraving from the Washington collection.

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Step back in time with Washington And His Generals, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Washington And His Generals

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Here Washington stands among the officers who served under him, a group portrait built for the parlor wall rather than a record of any single battle. Alexander Hay Ritchie, a Scottish-born engraver who worked in New York, drew and engraved the plate, and Emil Seitz, a New York publisher, issued it around 1870. By then, the centennial of the Revolution was drawing renewed attention to Washington, and engravings like this one gave middle-class households a way to display the nation's founding leaders. Look at how Ritchie arranges the figures to suggest rank and loyalty around the central commander.

Created / publishedc. 1870
Medium1 print, engraving
NotesDrawn and engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie. Published by Emil Seitz, New York
Original scan4,216 × 2,794 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi
Reference02503u

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