Emanuel Leutze’s enormous 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” depicts the general ... blue blocks of ice, looks more like the Rhine in Leutze’s native Germany than any ...

When the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” was first revealed to ... and he hoped his painting would inspire his countrymen to act like, well, countrymen. Unfortunately for Leutze ...

But then "Washington Crossing the Delaware," the iconic Emanuel ... All this fiction. It's like reality TV as a painting, right? But it means so much to the myth of strength and heroism and ...

painted “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in Düsseldorf. Leutze grew up in America but returned to Germany as an adult. He hoped the painting, and therefore the American Revolution ...

Washington Crossing the Delaware," the famous historical painting by Emanuel Leutze, was purchased last evening by John S. Kennedy, for $16,100, at the second night's sale of the Marshall O.

As America celebrates its semiquincentennial in 2026, visitors can hearken back to the Revolutionary War inside the 40-foot ...

There will be the usual crowd gathered on the Delaware ... the original crossing idealized in the painting by Emmanuel Leutze in 1851. The flotilla will launch from Washington Crossing Historic ...

Reenactors participate in George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 11, 2022. Kelly Terez/ABC News "When one participates in something like this ...