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Washington – Vintage Print

Washington, 1797 — historic print
Washington, 1797. Historic print from the Presidents 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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Washington appears here within an allegory rather than as a plain likeness, a form that drew on classical figures to express civic virtue. The woodcut was printed as an illustration in the 1797 *New England Primer*, a schoolbook that taught generations of American children to read. The caption tracings, which are unverified, list terms such as Liberty, Fame, and Astrea, the classical goddess of justice. Placing the first president among such symbols in a children's text shows how quickly he had become a national emblem by the late 1790s.

Created / published1797
Medium1 print : woodcut.
NotesIllus. in: New England Primer, 1797. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Pres.; Allegory; Liberty; Nature; Fame; Astrea.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,172 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147901

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