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[George Washington, head and shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[George Washington, head and shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing left] — antique engraving
[George Washington, head and shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing left]. Antique engraving from the Presidents collection.

(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: [George Washington, head and shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing left], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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George Washington appears here in profile, facing left, in the uniform he wore as commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a detail that marks this engraving as a portrait of him in his military role rather than as a civilian statesman. Engravings like this were widely reproduced in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when printed likenesses of Washington circulated in books, almanacs and broadsides and helped shape how the public pictured the country's first president. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year of this plate is uncertain, but its fine line work reflects the engraving techniques common to that tradition.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan929 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134581

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