I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach... -Andrew Jackson, New Orleans, 1815
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Against horizontal registers of red, white, and blue paint, Lawrence laid out the aftermath of General Andrew Jackson’s remarkable victory over the British on January 8, 1815, at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson credited the resounding victory to the valiant participation of the Kentuckians, Creole people, immigrants, and enslaved men who joined forces with him. While the seven-foot-high wall built by enslaved men out of logs, earth, and cotton bales stretched almost a mile (and protected nearly all the fighters), the barricade Lawrence rendered looks less makeshift. The survivors peer over the wall at the pile of redcoats they convincingly defeated.
Artwork Details
- Title: I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach... -Andrew Jackson, New Orleans, 1815
- Artist: Jacob Lawrence (American, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917–2000 Seattle, Washington)
- Date: 1956
- Medium: Egg tempera on hardboard
- Dimensions: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art