Washington and the Committee of Congress at Valley Forge [engraving]

Washington and the Committee of Congress at Valley Forge [engraving]

New York Henry J. Johnson, publisher c1879

1 print ; on sheet 21 x 26 cm.

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Washington is shown in the center of the cold, winter scene of the encampment, introducing a group of congressmen on his right, to a group of his troops, who have come out of a log house to the right on the picture. Only the officers have uniforms and these are in disrepair, and the remaining troups look sickly, and are poorly clothed. One officer at the rear is waving a flag with the words "Don't tread on me" at the bottom.
This engraving appears in Spencer's, History of the United States, Vol. I and also appears an illustration from Johnson's publication of Schroeder's Life and Times of Washington, Vol. I. It is a substitution for the engraving :Valley Forge - Washington & Lafayette", which appears between pages 686 & 687 in the earlier editions published by Johnson, Fry & Co., and Martin, Johnson & Co. in 1858.

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