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[Nathan Hale, 1755-1776, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, bound for execution] – Vintage Wall Art

[Nathan Hale, 1755-1776, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, bound for execution] — historic photograph
[Nathan Hale, 1755-1776, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, bound for execution]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few portraits of Nathan Hale were made from life, so this c1900 print shows him as later generations imagined him: full length, standing, turned to the left as he is led toward execution. Hale, a Connecticut schoolteacher who joined the Continental Army, was captured on Long Island in 1776 while gathering intelligence and was hanged by the British in New York that September. His reported last words, that he regretted having only one life to give for his country, made him a lasting symbol of patriotic sacrifice, and images like this kept that story before American audiences for decades.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,165 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125402

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