Washington Crossing the Delaware: A Beacon of the American Spirit
By Joseph Kellard
Unveiled in America at the Stuyvesant Institute in Manhattan in 1851, Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware attracted a level of interest and praise as noteworthy as the painting’s twelve foot by twenty-four foot dimensions.
Within four months of the exhibit’s opening, more than fifty thousand people viewed the panoramic painting of General G…
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