Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, Painting Postcard, Phostint

Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm. (3.5 x 5.5″)

Publisher/Editor: Detroit Publishing Co.

Condition: Postally unused, backside empty. Good condition with some signs of age including surface marks and wear to the paper.

Notes: Washington Crossing the Delaware is the title of three 1851 oil-on-canvas paintings by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze. The paintings commemorate General George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. (Wikipedia)

Phostint was the name Detroit Publishing used for a lithographic process it used to make the cards.