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George Washington – Historic Print

George Washington, New York : Cosmos Pictures Co., [between 1890 and 1900] — historic print
George Washington, New York : Cosmos Pictures Co., [between 1890 and 1900]. Historic print from the Presidents 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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This rare historic print captures George Washington in remarkable detail. 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's crossing of the Delaware and his attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton on December 26, 1776, is the event this image recalls, though the catalog record marks the setting with a question mark, so the exact scene is uncertain. The picture is a halftone reproduction of an earlier painting, issued by a New York firm sometime in the 1890s. Halftone processes let publishers print inexpensive copies of paintings in books, periodicals, and cheap wall prints, which spread familiar images of Revolutionary heroes to a wide audience. The result shows how late nineteenth-century Americans pictured the nation's founding through reproduced art.

Created / publishedNew York : Cosmos Pictures Co., [between 1890 and 1900]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions 1890-1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900.
NotesReproduction of painting: Washington receiving a salute on the field of Trenton"(?)."
SubjectsWashington, George,--1732-1799--Military service.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,027 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146001

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