Life of George Washington / painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris. – Historic Reproduction
(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 antique lithograph of Life of George Washington / painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Life of George Washington / painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris.
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Here the family gathers around the deathbed of George Washington, a scene of his final days at Mount Vernon in Virginia, where he died in December 1799. The print reproduces a painting by the American artist Stearns, transferred to stone by the lithographer Régnier and printed in Paris by Lemercier, a leading French lithographic house of the 1850s. The hand coloring adds warmth to the room and the figures. The image presents the founder as a grieving head of a household, an intimate view that suited mid-nineteenth-century audiences who wanted to see Washington as a familiar, human figure.
| Created / published | Paris : Lemercier, c1853. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Paintings Reproductions 1850-1860.Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Death & burial. Families--Virginia--1760-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,031 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223593 |
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