General Washington at the Close of the War – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: General Washington at the Close of the War, preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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General Washington at the Close of the War
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Harper's Weekly ran this wood engraving by R. Staudenbaur, made after a painting by Charles Willson Peale, on its front cover on May 4, 1889. The timing fits the centennial of Washington's inauguration as the first president in 1789, when the nation looked back on its founder with great interest. Peale, a painter of the Revolutionary generation, had portrayed Washington from life several times, so the image draws on a firsthand artistic tradition. Wood engraving let a weekly magazine reproduce a painting in quantity, which helped shape how many Americans pictured the general.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving by R. Staudenbaur after ptg. by Charles Wilson Peale, front cover of Harper's Weekly, May 4, 1889. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I; Pres. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,052 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133014 |
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