Death of Washington, Dec: 14. A.D. 1799 – Vintage Wall Art
![Death of Washington, Dec: 14. A.D. 1799, [New York] : N. Currier, 1846. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4c/4ca58496d404-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 Death of Washington, Dec: 14. A.D. 1799, 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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Death of Washington, Dec: 14. A.D. 1799
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Unlike many prints of Washington's career, this one turns to his last hours at Mount Vernon, where he died on December 14, 1799, after a brief illness that began with a sore throat. Nathaniel Currier issued the hand-colored lithograph in New York in 1846, when his firm was producing steady streams of patriotic scenes for a middle-class market. The composition imagines a household gathered around a deathbed, which let viewers mourn the first president in a familiar, domestic setting.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, 1846. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1649. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,007 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109751 |
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