Washington Crossing the Delaware by Thomas Kelly, based on original by Emanuel Leutze
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: depicted
content: Washington, George
label: maker
content: Kelly, Thomas
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Colored print of George Washington standing, dramaticaly poised on the very edge of the bow of a wooden row boat. The boat is depicted in the foreground, and contains American troops using oars to navigate through boulders of ice in the Delaware River. It captures the moment in time when Washington is leading his troops to cross frigid waters for a suprise attack on British and Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey on Christmas 1776. In the center of the boat is a soldier carrying a large American flag. The print by Kelly is based on the 1850 Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Leutze's original painting was created in Germany and designed to cause a stir about the struggles following the European revolutions of 1848. Leutze was also an abolitionist and deliberately includes an African American soldier in his composition on the ice behind Washington's boat, and there are numerous boats transporting troops in the background. Kelly's print does not include the black soldier, and blurs the couple of boats in the background that are transporting horses.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Thomas Kelly was a successful Irish-born lithographer who had learned the craft in Philadelphia from his father. He moved to New York, where he established a print and frame dealership and continued to publish picturesque scenes of American life. He is possibly the same Thomas Kelly who printed Catholic Bibles and prayer-books in New York, winning an award for these at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Revolutionary War
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: Subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: related event
content: American Revolution
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2574
label: catalog number
content: 60.2574
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 17 3/4 in x 24 in; 45.085 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 25 3/4 in; 50.8 cm x 65.405 cm