Washington's entry into New York: on the evacuation of the city by the British, Nov. 25th. 1783 – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Washington's entry into New York: on the evacuation of the city by the British, Nov. 25th. 1783, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington's entry into New York: on the evacuation of the city by the British, Nov. 25th. 1783
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Currier & Ives turned the British evacuation of New York on November 25, 1783 into a lithograph of Washington riding triumphantly back into the city, a scene the firm could sell to a public that still loved the Revolution's heroes. The print was issued around 1857, roughly seventy years after the event, so it reflects how later Americans remembered the moment rather than how it looked at the time. When the last British troops sailed from the harbor, Washington and his officers entered Manhattan to mark the end of the long occupation of the city, and the print presents that return as the peaceful close of the war.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1857. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Reference copy in the Presidential file. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7071. |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Military service. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109744 |
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