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[Painting of Washington in camp] – Antique Wall Art

[Painting of Washington in camp], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Painting of Washington in camp], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: [Painting of Washington in camp], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Painting of Washington in camp]

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This glass negative records a painting of George Washington in camp, not a scene photographed on site, and it was copied photographically sometime between 1900 and 1920. Paintings of Washington among his officers and troops were popular through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Americans increasingly looked back on the Revolution as a source of national identity, and photographic copies let such images circulate widely. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced views and reproductions in this period, held the collection this plate belongs to, and the negative reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsWashington, George,--1732-1799. Generals. Military camps.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75208

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