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A detailed history of the painting, the actual crossing of the Delaware by American forces, and the life of Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Fischer, David Hackett (2004). Washington's Crossing. Oxford, England; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517034-2. Barratt, Carrie Rebora (Fall 2011). "Washington Crossing the Delaware and the ...
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It was modeled on the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. [2] [3] The owner of the statue was Mahlon Dickerson Eyre, a banker from Philadelphia, who was residing in Florence, Italy, at the time. He loaned this colossal marble statue to the 1876 Centennial Exposition, held in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. [4]
Alt 1 – Google Art Project version Reason High res image of an event with historical significance, along with excellent EV in multiple articles. Featured Picture in various Wikiprojects. Articles in which this image appears George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings) primarily ...
Washington Crossing the Delaware may refer to: George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, an event during the American Revolutionary War before the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings), three paintings by Emanuel Leutze; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953 painting), by Larry Rivers
The Passage of the Delaware is a large, Neoclassical 1819 oil-on-canvas painting by Thomas Sully. [1] With attention to historical accuracy, the painting depicts George Washington on horseback observing the troops of the American Revolutionary Army in the process of crossing the Delaware River prior to the surprise attack on Hessian troops on ...
The park was created in 1917 and the Washington Crossing Park Commission was established in 1919 to administer and develop the park. [5] Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. The park was formed to commemorate the famous Crossing as the "Turning point of the American Revolution." The commission's first objective was to ...
Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge, a 1907 painting by John Ward Dunsmore. Washington and his army of 11,000 men went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777. There they lost between 2,000 and 3,000 men as a result of disease and lack of food, clothing, and shelter, reducing the army to below 9,000 men ...