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George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left – Vintage Wall Art

George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left, c. 1929 — historic print
George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left, c. 1929. Historic print 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This color halftone reproduces Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum portrait of George Washington, the unfinished oil that Stuart painted from life in the 1790s and that now hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The print was made by the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, a Boston firm known for color reproductions, and its c. 1929 date places it in the period when Washington's likeness was widely reproduced in schoolbooks, calendars, and patriotic displays. The Athenaeum image is the source of the face most Americans recognize from the one-dollar bill, which helps explain why this reproduction circulated so widely.

Created / publishedc. 1929
Medium1 photomechanical print, halftone, color
NotesFrom the Athenaeum portrait by Gilbert Stuart, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,214 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147812

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