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George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left – Vintage Photo Print

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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Few images of Washington have been copied as often as the Athenaeum portrait, the unfinished head Gilbert Stuart painted in 1796, which now hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This c. 1929 color halftone reproduces that composition, with Washington's head turned slightly to the left. The Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, a Boston firm known for color printing, made the reproduction in an era when painted portraits of national figures were often reproduced in inexpensive print form. The print shows how Stuart's image moved from a single canvas into mass circulation.

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 scan854 × 1,254 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217009

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