Washington's reception by the ladies, on passing the bridge at Trenton, N.J. April, 1789: on his way to New York to be inaugurated first President of the United States – Antique 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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Step back in time with Washington's reception by the ladies, on passing the bridge at Trenton, N.J. April, 1789: on his way to New York to be inaugurated first President of the United States, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington's reception by the ladies, on passing the bridge at Trenton, N.J. April, 1789: on his way to New York to be inaugurated first President of the United States
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Here Washington is shown at the Trenton bridge, where a triumphal arch greeted him in April 1789 as he rode toward New York for his inauguration as the first President. Young women in white, strewing flowers before him, are the scene's most distinctive feature, and the event became a favorite subject for later printmakers. Nathaniel Currier issued this hand-colored lithograph around 1845, when the Revolutionary generation had passed and Americans were increasingly drawn to sentimental images of the nation's founding. The print shows how that nostalgia turned a local welcome into a patriotic tableau.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1845. |
|---|---|
| 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. 7078 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,241 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175257 |
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