Washington at Mount Vernon 1797: agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.--Washington – Historic Print
(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 at Mount Vernon 1797: agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.--Washington, 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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Washington at Mount Vernon 1797: agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.--Washington
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Washington is shown at Mount Vernon in 1797, the year he left the presidency for his Virginia farm, beside a line attributed to him that calls agriculture the most healthy, useful, and noble work of man. N. Currier published this hand-colored lithograph around 1852, when the firm was producing sentimental scenes of national heroes for a broad middle-class market. Washington's letters show how closely he managed his fields, so the sentiment fits the man even if the scene is idealized. The print pairs a founding father with the rural ideal many Americans still prized.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1852. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7051 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,092 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108947 |
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