"General Washington" by Thomas Cheesman, after John Trumbull, 1796

Presented is a stipple engraving depicting General George Washington on the night of January 2nd, 1777, just after the Battle of the Assunpink Creek and before the decisive Battle of Princeton. The print was engraved by Thomas Cheesman, after the heroic 1792 painting by John Trumbull, "General Washington at Trenton." The engraving was published by Antonio Cesare Poggi in London, in 1796.  In the composition, Washington stands in front of the battlefield. In his left hand is his sword, and in his right hand is a spyglass. Just behind him, a soldier tends to his white horse Blueskin, while in the background soldiers wave a flag along the icy banks of New Jersey. Also depicted is the bridge over the Assunpink Creek and nearby mill, artillery, and campfires. This is a powerful lifetime portrait of our first President as the courageous and valiant Revolutionary War General. In 1792, the city of Charleston, South Carolina commissioned the artist John Trumbull to paint a portrait of George Wa