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George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left – Vintage Wall Art

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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George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The image reproduces the Athenaeum portrait, Gilbert Stuart's 1796 likeness of George Washington, now held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stuart left much of the background and coat unfinished, which gave the face a striking clarity and made this one of the most copied images of the first president. This print is a halftone color reproduction from about 1929, made by the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company of Boston, one of the firms that produced color prints of famous paintings in the early twentieth century. Its dot pattern and flat color show how such reproductions were made before modern photographic printing.

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 scan1,500 × 2,031 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
Reference31_00001

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