Life of George Washington: The Farmer – Antique Print
(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: Life of George Washington: The Farmer, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Life of George Washington: The Farmer
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Rather than a battlefield or a council chamber, this print presents George Washington as a working farmer, the role he took most pride in during the years at Mount Vernon. Washington ran his Virginia estate with close attention, experimenting with crop rotation, improved plowing and new livestock breeds, and he kept detailed records of his fields. Prints like this one belonged to a wider nineteenth-century effort to shape Washington into a national hero, and the agrarian image spoke to a public that still saw farming as the foundation of American character. It sits comfortably on a harvest board, where the rural scene connects to the season.
| Original scan | 8,130 × 6,628 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02419u |
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