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Washington's head-quarters 1780: at Newburgh, on the Hudson – Antique Print

Washington's head-quarters 1780: at Newburgh, on the Hudson, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph
Washington's head-quarters 1780: at Newburgh, on the Hudson, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1856 and 1907]. Antique lithograph from the Washington 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 images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Washington's head-quarters 1780: at Newburgh, on the Hudson. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Newburgh, on the Hudson's west bank, is the setting here, and the house shown is the one long identified as Washington's headquarters during the army's encampment there. The title dates the scene to 1780, but Washington's longest stay at Newburgh came in 1782 and 1783, when the army wintered there while peace talks dragged on and the Newburgh Addresses circulated among the officers. Nathaniel Currier published this hand-colored lithograph in New York, one of many patriotic views of Revolutionary sites sold to a popular market in the decades after the war's centennial.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1856 and 1907]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7073
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175254

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