"Washington Crossing the Delaware" — 1861 — Framed

Full title: Washington Passing the Delaware, Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, Dec. 25th, 1776

On the top:

"The Annual Greeting of the Carriers of the Philadelphia Inquirer To Their Patrons for 1861"

After the painting by 1819 painting by Thomas Sully. Engraved by J.N. Gimbrede in 1842 engraved by J.N. Gimbrede for The New-York Mirror. This is a later printing for distribution, one assumes, in 1861, as noted in the heading above the image.

Framed and matted in a solid-wood frame with museum grade UV-protecting, non-glare acrylic.

The original painting is in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and it is spectacular. This is their description of the painting:

"Commissioned by the state of North Carolina for a public building, this monumental painting commemorates the cold December night when Washington led his troops across the frozen Delaware River to surprise the enemy forces at Trenton. The decisive victory that followed tilted the war in the colonists' favor. Thomas Sully, an ambitious Philadelphia artist, drew from written account of the event and his own theatrical imagination to formulate the painting, which he called "a historical portrait." Measuring a startling twelve feet tall by seventeen feet wide, the painting proved too large for its intended exhibition space and circulated through venues up and down the East Coast until it was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in 1903. It retains its original frame, crafted by the Boston artisan John Doggett around 1823."

Size of frame: 15.5" x 16"

Shipping: $25. Please allow two weeks for shipping.