Washington at Mount Vernon 1797: agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.--Washington – Antique Print
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Washington at Mount Vernon 1797: agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.--Washington in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington at Mount Vernon 1797: agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.--Washington
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Currier & Ives produced this hand-colored lithograph around 1852, and its title carries a quotation attributed to George Washington: agriculture is "the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man." The scene is set at Mount Vernon, the Virginia estate Washington farmed for most of his life, and the 1797 date in the caption points to his retirement there after two terms as president. Printed a half-century later, the picture reflects the mid-century taste for idealized images of Washington as a country gentleman, a figure of civic virtue who turned from public service to the land.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1852. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7051 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,257 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175248 |
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