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Washington family: Washington his lady & two grandchildren by the name of Custis – Vintage Wall Art

Washington family: Washington his lady & two grandchildren by the name of Custis, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph
Washington family: Washington his lady & two grandchildren by the name of Custis, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856]. Antique lithograph from the Revolutionary War 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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This hand-colored lithograph shows George and Martha Washington with two of Martha's grandchildren from her first marriage, the Custis children, whom the Washingtons raised after their father, Daniel Parke Custis, died in 1757. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York between 1835 and 1856, when the domestic family scene was a popular subject for American printmakers. Such prints offered middle-class buyers a patriotic image of Washington as a family man rather than only a military hero. The print's palette and detail reflect the hand-coloring that Currier's shop used to make mass-produced images more appealing.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7067
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,321 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175252

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