The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va. – Antique Wall Art
![The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1872] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/748acc54ab14-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.)
Description
A window into the past: The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va.
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Mount Vernon, the Potomac River estate George Washington built up over his lifetime, is the setting for this hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. The firm's print shop in New York turned out large numbers of sentimental and patriotic views like this one during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when Washington's home had become a shrine. The estate had passed to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1858, and the growing public interest in preserving it helps explain why such scenes sold so well. Looking closely, the viewer sees the house as a symbol of national memory rather than as a working plantation.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3105 |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts--Virginia--Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)--1850-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,170 × 893 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217313 |
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