The First Landing Of The Pilgrims, 1620 – 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 rare antique engraving captures The First Landing Of The Pilgrims, 1620 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The First Landing Of The Pilgrims, 1620
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The Pilgrims' arrival is staged here as a set piece: a group of men and women stepping ashore in heavy dress, with the Mayflower's rigging behind them and a wide, empty shoreline stretching out. The engraving was made by T. Phillibrown after a painting by Charles Lucey, and it reflects the nineteenth-century habit of turning the 1620 landing at Plymouth into a national origin story. Pictures like this shaped how Americans pictured the colonists for generations, often more than the documentary record did. Look closely at the composition and you can see how the artist arranged the figures to suggest courage, faith and the promise of a new country.
| Medium | print, engraving |
|---|---|
| Notes | Engraving by T. Phillibrown after Chas. Lucey |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,137 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 7 |
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