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George Washington: first president of the United States – Vintage Print

George Washington: first president of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph
George Washington: first president of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856]. Antique lithograph 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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Nathaniel Currier's New York firm issued this hand-colored lithograph of George Washington, likely between 1835 and 1856, when the first president was a favorite subject for patriotic prints. Lithography allowed such images to be printed in quantity and sold cheaply, and the color was usually added by hand, so no two copies were exactly alike. Prints like this one carried Washington's likeness into homes, taverns and schoolrooms, keeping his image before a public that was building its own sense of national identity.

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. 2554
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,067 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174555

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