COMMANDER GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON & CONTINENTAL ARMY 1857 Art Print Engraving

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Seller: lineart ✉️ (23,165) 99.6%, Location: New Providence, New Jersey, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 315020840582 COMMANDER GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON & CONTINENTAL ARMY 1857 Art Print Engraving .

WASHINGTON TAKING COMMAND OF THE ARMY

Artist: Alonzo Chappel ____________ Engraver: unknown

 

Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving

 

PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed in 1857; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.

PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 7 inches by 10 inches including white borders.

PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper.

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PRINT DESCRIPTION:

July 3, 1775 On this day in 1775, George Wa30 shington rides out in front of the American troops gathered at Cambridge common in Massachusetts and draws his sword, formally taking command of the Continental Army. Washington, a prominent Virginia planter and veteran of the French and Indian War, had been appointed commander in chief by the Continental Congress two weeks before. In agreeing to serve the American colonies in their war for independence, he declined to accept payment for his services beyond reimbursement of future expenses. George Washington was born in 1732 to a farm family in Westmoreland County, Virginia. His first direct military experience came as a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia colonial militia in 1754, when he led a small expedition against the French in the Ohio River Valley on behalf of the governor of Virginia, beginning a fight that resulted in disastrous defeat for first Washington and then British General Edward Braddock. This launched the Seven Years War, but Washington resigned from his military post and returned to a planter's life in Virginia, later taking a seat in Virginia's House of Burgesses. During the next two decades, Washington openly opposed escalating British taxation and repression of the American colonies. In 1774, he represented Virginia at the Continental Congress. After the American Revolution erupted in 1775, Washington was nominated to be commander in chief of the newly established Continental Army. Some in the Continental Congress opposed his appointment, thinking other candidates were better equipped for the post, but he was ultimately chosen because, as a Virginian, his leadership helped bind the southern colonies more closely to the rebellion in New England. Despite his inexperienced and poorly equipped army of civilian soldiers, General Washington led an effective war of harassment against British forces in America, while encouraging the intervention of the French into the conflict on behalf of the colonists. On October 19, 1781, with the surrender of British General Charles Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, General Washington defeated one of the most powerful nations on earth. After the war, the victorious general retired to his estate at Mount Vernon, but, in 1787, he heeded his nation's call and agreed to preside over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The drafters created the office of president with him in mind, and, in February 1789, Washington was unanimously elected the first president of the United States. As president, Washington sought to unite the nation and protect the interests of the new republic at home and abroad. Of his presidency, he said, "I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn in precedent." He successfully implemented executive authority, making good use of brilliant politicians such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in his cabinet, and quieted fears of presidential tyranny. In 1792, he was unanimously reelected but, four years later, refused a third term. He died in 1799.

Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. “ENGRAVINGS”, the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or “engravings” were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.

AN EXTREMELY RARE PRINT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, THE WAR OF THE REBELLION! VERY HARD TO FIND!

  • Material: Engraving
  • Date of Creation: 1800-1899
  • Subject: History
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Type: Print

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