{"id":629,"date":"2015-09-29T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=629"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:41:16","slug":"image-leutzes-washington-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/image-leutzes-washington-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAGE &#8211;Leutze&#8217;s Washington Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_204\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/collection\/the-collection-online\/search\/11417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-image-204 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Crossing (1851)\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting-560x328.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting-260x152.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting-160x94.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This most\u00a0famous American painting was created by a German painter named Emanuel Leutze, originally in 1849 and then again in 1851. \u00a0The story behind his motivation for painting this image provides a helpful\u00a0connection between American and European revolutionary movements. \u00a0Teachers and students can use this image to study both the Revolutionary War and the history of nineteenth-century nationalist conflicts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/collection\/the-collection-online\/search\/11417\">1851 version of the painting<\/a> (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/closer-readings\/emanuel-leutzes-symbolic-scene-washington-crossing-delaware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leutze&#8217;s Symbolic Scene<\/a>\u00a0(NEH)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This most\u00a0famous American painting was created by a German painter named Emanuel Leutze, originally in 1849 and then again in 1851. \u00a0The story behind his motivation for painting this image provides a helpful\u00a0connection between American and European revolutionary movements. \u00a0Teachers&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/image-leutzes-washington-crossing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119181,77954],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memory","category-revolutionary-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}