Washington, appointed Commander in Chief – Historic 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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This antique lithograph of Washington, appointed Commander in Chief brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington, appointed Commander in Chief
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Lithographs like this one show the moment the Continental Congress chose George Washington to lead its army, a decision made in Philadelphia on June 15, 1775, weeks after fighting had begun at Lexington and Concord. Published by Currier & Ives around 1876, the hand-colored print appeared in the centennial year, when the firm produced many scenes of the Revolution for a public eager to revisit its origins. Such prints often blended documented events with idealized staging, so the image says as much about how Americans remembered 1775 a century later as it does about the event itself.
| 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. 7047 |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Military service. United States.--Continental Congress--People. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,384 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175247 |
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