One of George Washington’s prized possessions was an ink-wash drawing of the Bastille, the Parisian prison stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789. He mounted it in the entryway of his Mount ...

The Destruction of the Bastille, an ink drawing painted a mere week after the storming of the Bastille and the start of the French Revolution, and then gifted to George Washington by his close ...

Despite its symbolic heft, the key to the Bastille is fairly unremarkable: seven inches of wrought iron with fleur-de-lis teeth. George Washington treasured it. Upon receiving the key in 1790, he ...

Lafayette was one of Washington's most trusted military commanders, and they had a close friendship and even family-like relationship. The drawing depicts the demolished Bastille prison in Paris ...

When the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” was first revealed to the public in the early 1850s, it was a smash hit. It toured major cities, drawing crowds and gold medals.

An ink-wash drawing once owned by President George Washington will be going under the hammer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The work of art, "The Destruction of the Bastille," will be offered as a ...