The Retreat from Long Island
20th Century Print
1932 (Date manufactured/created)
etching
paper, Print
12 7/8 in. H
X
9 1/4 in. W
19.5 inches H X 14.75 inches W
19.5 inches H X 14.75 inches W
This is print 10 of 20 from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington issued in cooperation with the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and with its approval. The set was edited by John Taylor Arms with Harry Ogden as associate editor and Dorothy Noyes Arms as a contributor. The set includes 20 original etchings, each executed and signed by a distinguished American artist, with an essay on the national hero by Dixon Ryan Fox of Columbia University. It was published in New York in 1932.
This print depicts: " The General and Colonel Glover are shown directing, at night, one of the most astonishing and successful retreats in military annals."
This print depicts: "The young widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, and the gallant Colonel, recently returned from a trip to the Ohio country, shown in a beautiful Virginia Garden."
This print depicts: " The General and Colonel Glover are shown directing, at night, one of the most astonishing and successful retreats in military annals."
This print depicts: "The young widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, and the gallant Colonel, recently returned from a trip to the Ohio country, shown in a beautiful Virginia Garden."
Gift of The George Washington Memorial Association in Memory of Arthur R. Kimball, 1933
XP68.315.11