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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 ...
Grand Themes: Emanuel Leutze, "Washington Crossing the Delaware," and American History Painting (Penn State University Press; 2012) 240 pages; Argues that the painting was a touchstone for debates over history painting at a time of intense sectionalism. Hutton, Anne Hawkes (1975). Portrait of Patriotism: Washington Crossing the Delaware. Radnor ...
Delaware Crossing may refer to An event: George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army prior to the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting), an oil painting depicting the above; A place: Washington Crossing State Park, a state park of New Jersey
Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting), by Emanuel Leutze; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953 painting), by Larry Rivers "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (sonnet), a 1936 sonnet by David Schulman; The Crossing, an A&E television movie
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
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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 ...
Blunt's paternal grandfather, Captain John Blunt, was a sea captain, notable for manning the helm of George Washington's ship on his famed crossing of the Delaware in 1776. Blunt's maternal grandfather, Shem Drowne (1683-1774), was a Rhode Island coppersmith attributed with making the grasshopper vane atop Faneuil Hall in Boston.