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Washington Passing the Delaware

(American, born in 1799)
(American, born in Ireland, 1794–1865)
(American (born in England), 1783–1872)
1825
Medium/TechniqueEtching and engraving
DimensionsImage: 30.5 x 42.5 cm (12 x 16 3/4 in.)
Image (with border): 37 x 47.9 cm (14 9/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 45 x 53.4 cm (17 11/16 x 21 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler
Accession number33.953
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, at lower left: Painted by T. Sully. In plate, at lower right: Etched by W. Humphrys, Engraved by G. S. Lang. In plate, below image: Washington Passing the Delaware, Evening previous to the Battle of Trenton, Dec. 25th 1776. In plate, at lower center: Philadelphia, Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, May 20th 1825.
ProvenanceBequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler, in 1933