Sketch for a Life Saving Medal (from McGuire Scrapbook)

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Artist: Emanuel Leutze
Date: 1816
Medium: Pen, ink, and graphite on thin off-white laid letterpress paper
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. (21 x 19.4 cm)
Collection: The American Wing
Culture: American
Credit line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926

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Emanuel Leutze

Emanuel Leutze was a German-born American history painter, best known for his iconic 1851 painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware."

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