Washington the surveyor – Historic Reproduction
![Washington the surveyor, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5b/5b401ed28487-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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A window into the past: Washington the surveyor, 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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Most images of George Washington show him as a general or statesman, but this engraving recalls his early years as a land surveyor, a trade he took up as a teenager. In the late 1740s he laid out tracts in the Shenandoah Valley, including lands owned by Lord Fairfax, and the work gave him both practical skill and the start of his personal fortune. The print was designed and etched for George Bancroft's *History of the United States*, a multivolume account that helped shape how Americans remembered the founding era. The record gives no date for the engraving, so its exact year of publication is unknown.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Designed and etched for Bancroft, History of the United States. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,400 × 3,087 px · prints to 8 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135357 |
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