Washington Crossing the Delaware

Cultural  

1. A painting from the nineteenth century by a German painter, Emanuel Leutze, showing George Washington and a group of soldiers in a small boat crossing the Delaware River. In this romanticized but inaccurate view, the soldiers are going to launch a surprise attack against the British troops during the American Revolutionary War.

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Example Sentences

Saul has also taken a stab at historical landscapes, like Custer’s Last Stand and Washington Crossing the Delaware.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2020

There is also a parody of Washington Crossing the Delaware, an 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze which has been recreated by Rolling Stone cartoonist Victor Juhasz.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2018

The Met had displayed them in separate galleries, and "Washington Crossing the Delaware," which the Met acquired in 1897, was in a side gallery.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2012

In 1925 its artist parodied Washington Crossing the Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Leutze, after a long absence from this country, has returned, bringing with him his greatest work, Washington Crossing the Delaware, which will soon be exhibited at the Stuyvesant Institute.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various