Washington Crossing the Delaware Canvas

Artist: Emanual Leutze; 1850. This is a public domain image I have slightly cropped and edited in photoshop to my own liking.  The painter grew up in America but the painting was done in 1850 in Germany.  Around the time of the California Gold Rush and the Mexican American War there was a wave of revolutionary spirit all through Europe.  France began their revolution to a Second Republic a couple weeks after Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.  On Janurary 9th of 1848 as the USA was negotiating the end to the Mexican American war the first of the Eruopean Revolutions began in Sicily and then other parts of Italy eventually forming the creation of the modern day unified state of Italy.  Other reforms to monarchial rule occured in Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands which were peaceful. In Prussia and Austria the revolutions and call for constitutions and democracy were defeated and would have to wait for another day in history.  This painting w