Washington at prayer – Antique Print
![Washington at prayer, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1840-1860] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/eb26abb05e72-L.webp)
(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 at prayer, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington at prayer
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Here Washington kneels alone in prayer, a scene that presents his devotion as a private moment in the Revolution. The image draws on a story that circulated widely in the nineteenth century, in which Washington withdrew to a grove to pray during the hard winter at Valley Forge in 1777 and 1778, when the Continental Army lacked food, clothing and shelter. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued hand-colored lithographs for a broad public, produced many such pictures to present the nation's founder as both soldier and devout man.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1840-1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7052 |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Religion. Washington, George,--1732-1799--Military service. Prayer--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,227 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175241 |
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