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Learn about the downloadable version of Mission US here. Not yet registered? Sign up here. LIBERTY! - The American Revolution. What's wrong with this painting? Click for enlargement Wouldn't it have been great if a group of news reporters with high tech cameras and sound equipment lined the shores of the Delaware River as the troops climbed into boats and slowly crossed on December 25, 1776?
We would know exactly what it looked like from many perspectives, what was said, and who was involved. Unfortunately, those things weren't available in 1776 and we are left with only letters, diary accounts, reports, and an idea of the items used by the troops and General Washington that night. That meant that artists like Emmanuel Leutze, who painted this picture in 1851, did not know how the crossing of the Delaware looked either. So, do we think he got the painting close to how it looked?
First of all, it was night. Compounding the darkness and certainly indicating that no sun was available, is the fact that diary account after diary account talk of the horrible weather that accompanied the crossing. Durham boat. What does the painting have right? Washington crosses the Delaware again! New painting reworks American classic. By Associated Press Updated: 00:57 GMT, 25 December 2011 One of America's most famous images, a painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, got much of the story wrong: The American commander wouldn't have stood triumphantly on a rowboat in daylight, but on a ferry bracing himself against a fierce snowstorm on Christmas night.
That's the historic scene depicted in a new painting that goes on display this week at the New York Historical Society museum in Manhattan. 'No one in his right mind would have stood up in a rowboat in that weather,' artist Mort Kunstler said. 'It would have capsized.' New version: New York artist Mort Kuntsler's painting, titled Washington's Crossing: McKonkey's Ferry, Dec. 26, 1776, debuts on Monday He told The Associated Press that he's 'not knocking the original' - the well-known 1851 painting by German-born artist Emanuel Leutze, who Kunstler says 'was glorifying Washington using what he knew at the time.' His troops were a ragtag bunch.