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Washington and Gist visit Queen Aliquippa [1754] – Vintage Print

Washington and Gist visit Queen Aliquippa [1754] — antique engraving
Washington and Gist visit Queen Aliquippa [1754]. Antique engraving from the Washington 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Washington and Gist visit Queen Aliquippa [1754]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Washington and Gist visit Queen Aliquippa [1754]

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This engraving shows the 1753 meeting, which the record dates to 1754, between a young George Washington, traveling with the frontier guide Christopher Gist, and Aliquippa, a woman leader among the Native peoples of the upper Ohio country. Washington was carrying a message from Virginia's governor to the French forts in the Ohio Valley, and he stopped to meet her as he passed through her territory. The print dates from about 1856, when interest in Washington's early career was growing, and it reflects how 19th-century artists pictured his frontier years as the start of his public life.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notesc1856.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,245 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120334

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