Washington: first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Washington: first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The caption quotes the phrase Henry Lee used in 1799 to honor George Washington, who had died that December at Mount Vernon. Lee's words became one of the most repeated tributes to the Revolutionary leader. About fifty years later, Nathaniel Currier's New York firm issued this hand-colored lithograph, one of many inexpensive prints that turned Washington's memory into household decoration. Such pictures, sold to middle-class buyers, helped fix a standard image of the general and first president that Americans kept on their walls for generations.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7036 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,229 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175244 |
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