Washington Crossing the Delaware

Washington Crossing the Delaware is an 1851 oil painting by German-American artist Emanuel Leutze. It is in commemoration of Washington's crossing of the Delaware on December 25, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. Part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it has been parodied by the Muppets on multiple occasions.
==References==
* The Sesame Street 1976 Calendar features George Washington's Birthday Party (Crossing the Delaware River) for the month of February.
* Lydia features a tattoo of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
* The American Revolution sketch featured Washington crossing the Delaware's famous pose captured in the painting.
* Baby Fozzie played Washington in the 1991 Muppet Babies coloring book A Trip Through Time.
* Baby Kermit portrayed General Washington crossing the Delaware in Muppet Babies Visit the Fifty States.
* Kermit as "George Washingtoad" in the coloring book Great Muppets in American History spoofs the famous painting.
* The coloring book Museum of Monster Art spoofs the painting.
* In the special Don't Eat the Pictures, Ernie and Bert make their observations of the painting.
* The painting appears in a history book that the Muppet Babies discover in the episode "Out-of-This-World History," and quickly reenact in their song.
*Kermit the Frog dressed as Washington crossing the Delaware (in a recreation of the New Jersey state quarter design) to promote the United State Mint's US State Commemorative Quarter program in 1999. A TV commercial for the program, depicting the scene, followed in 2001.
*A Sesame Street cartoon features Washington trying to even out the number of mates on each side of his boat. The segment ends with a shot from the actual painting.
* In One Frog Can Make a Difference, Kermit talks about a channeler who told him in a past life he aided Washington getting across the river.
*The Cookie Thief features a spoof of the painting called "Cookies Crossing the Delaware."
*Cookie Monster visits the painting in a Vine video from February 2015.
* Sam the Eagle (in his Samuel Arrow guise) appears in a recreation of the painting in the Muppet Babies episode "Summer's Disaster-Piece."
Image:Lydia_washington.jpg|One of Lydia's tattoos from The Muppet Show episode 102.
Image:Crossdelaware.jpg|"American Revolution" sketch
Image:Georgewashingtoad.jpg|Great Muppets in American History
TripTime-WashingtonDelaware.png|A Trip Through Time
Image:Commercial.usmint1.jpg|United States Mint ad
Image:UnitedStatesMint-TV-Commercial-KermitWashington.jpg|United States Mint TV commercial
Image:Washington.Barretta.2.jpg|Sesame Street cartoon
Washington Crossing the Delaware - Museum of Monster Art.png|Museum of Monster Art
Washington Crossing the Delaware - Don't Eat the Pictures.jpg|Don't Eat the Pictures
MB205-YankeeDoodleRock01-WashingtonCrossingTheDelaware01.png|"Out-of-This-World History"
MB205-YankeeDoodleRock02-WashingtonCrossingTheDelaware02.png|"Out-of-This-World History"
Image:Delawaredifference.JPG|One Frog Can Make a Difference
CookieThief-Delaware.jpg|The Cookie Thief
Cookie-Washington.png|Vine video
File:NHK Magazine-1991 7.jpg|Sesame Street Magazine (NHK) cover (July 1991)
MB303-Washington.png|Muppet Babies
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