George Washington – Antique Print
![George Washington, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/1023940728b5-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of George Washington. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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George Washington
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Rather than a painted likeness, this print reproduces a sculpted bust of Washington by Giuseppe Ceracchi, an Italian sculptor who worked in the United States in the early 1790s and modeled several portraits of national leaders. H.B. Hall, a New York engraver who made many portrait plates in the 19th century, translated the three-dimensional head into a line engraving, so the image shows a sculptor's view of Washington filtered through a printmaker's hand. Engravings like this carried the likeness of the first president into homes, schools and public buildings, when photographs did not yet exist.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by H.B. Hall, of bust by G. Ceracchi. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sculpture; Artists, Publ. Index; Pres. Index; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,046 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132404 |
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