Details
Creator Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher.
Title Die Hessen vom General Washington am 25ten Dec. 1776 zu Trenton uberfallen, werden als Kriegsgefangne in Philadelphia eingebracht. [graphic].
Title Hessian prisoners taken at Trenton being marched through Philadelphia
Publisher [Leipzig] : [Haude and Spener von Berlin]
Date [1783]
Physical Description 1 print : etching ; sheet 10 x 6 cm (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description Scene depicting General George Washington and his bodyguard on horseback marching the Hessian prisoners captured on Christmas 1776 over a Philadelphia drawbridge. Spectators line the bridge, including a woman and an African American man.
Is referenced by Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 271
Notes Inscribed upper left corner: S.iii.
Plate 6 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log. 5059.D).
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Drawbridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Prisoners of war -- Hessian -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1770-1780.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Genre Etchings -- 1780-1790.
Book illustrations -- 1780-1790.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.6]
Accession number P.8935.6