Newly Found Painting Shows George Washington's Army Tent

[jpak]

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/newly-found-painting-shows-george-washingtons-army-tent/4119181.html

One late night in May, Philip Mead was looking for historical objects from the American Revolution. He noticed a painting being offered for sale on the internet.

Suddenly, he felt his heartbeat speeding up.

Mead is the chief historian at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The painting is an unsigned watercolor from 1782. It shows the army tent that George Washington had used as his command center during the Revolutionary War. And, to Mead, this seemed to be the only known artwork from that period to show this tent.

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. Seriously exciting!!!!

I'm late to the game but I just finished watching "John Adams" - the series shown on HBO and based on the writings of David McCullough.
I'm also from western Pennsylvania, where Washington had marched through and saw the "Golden Triangle" go through the ownership of Native Americans, British, and French.

Guess I've got a road trip to plan to see it when it's presented!

Great find!

[Sneederbunk]

2. BTW where were all the sketch artists during Revolutionary War?

Remember many sketches from Civil War, but they had more newspapers then.

[Irish_Dem]

3. They were told the war was fake news so didn't bother. nt

[malaise]

5. ROFL

You win the thread

[Irish_Dem]

4. Quite an elegant tent! Can any one determine the scale? How big the entrance structure

and tent were?

[Raine]

6. VERY Cool...

THANKS for posting this!