The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va. – Antique Wall Art
![The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1872] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/243581321deb-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.)
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Step back in time with The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va.
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Mount Vernon, the Potomac River plantation where George Washington lived and died, is the subject here, shown in a hand-colored lithograph that Currier & Ives issued in New York sometime between 1856 and 1872. By those years the estate had become a popular pilgrimage site, largely because the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association began raising money to preserve it in 1853. Prints like this one helped fix an image of Washington's home as a place of national memory, and the color work gives the white house and surrounding grounds a tidy, idealized look worth comparing with later photographs.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3105 |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts--Virginia--Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)--1850-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,293 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175350 |
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