The tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon, Va. – Vintage Print
![The tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon, Va., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a848629a1bf4-L.webp)
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures The tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon, Va. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon, Va.
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The subject is the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon, his Potomac River estate in Virginia, where the first president was buried after his death in 1799. The original family vault fell into disrepair, and a new tomb was built on the grounds in the early 1830s, becoming a site of pilgrimage for visitors in the decades that followed. This hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier & Ives, the New York firm that produced thousands of inexpensive prints of American landmarks, battles and heroes for a broad public eager to see the nation's history.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6561 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,305 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175390 |
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