Washington taking leave of the officers of his army: at Francis's Tavern, Broad Street, New York, Decr. 4th. 1783 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Washington taking leave of the officers of his army: at Francis's Tavern, Broad Street, New York, Decr. 4th. 1783. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington taking leave of the officers of his army: at Francis's Tavern, Broad Street, New York, Decr. 4th. 1783
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Washington's farewell to his officers at Francis's Tavern on Broad Street in New York, on December 4, 1783, is the scene this hand-colored lithograph sets out to show. Nathaniel Currier issued it around 1848, decades after the event, so it reflects how Americans of the mid-nineteenth century chose to remember the close of the Revolution. The tavern gathering, where Washington bid farewell to his senior officers, was a quiet and emotional moment after the British evacuation of the city, and the print is worth viewing as much for its nineteenth-century sentiment as for its record of the event.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7086 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,289 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175258 |
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