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[George Washington, full length portrait, in uniform, standing in front of horse, facing left; 1775] – Historic Photograph Print

[George Washington, full length portrait, in uniform, standing in front of horse, facing left; 1775] — antique engraving
[George Washington, full length portrait, in uniform, standing in front of horse, facing left; 1775]. Antique engraving 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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A window into the past: [George Washington, full length portrait, in uniform, standing in front of horse, facing left; 1775], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[George Washington, full length portrait, in uniform, standing in front of horse, facing left; 1775]

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Few Washington portraits show him full length in uniform beside a horse, as this steel engraving does. The pose points to 1775, when the Continental Congress named him commander in chief of the colonial forces and he went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to take charge of the army besieging British-held Boston. Steel engraving was a leading method for fine book and print illustration in the mid-1800s, producing crisp lines and plates that could be printed many times. The c1858 date places the image in an era when Washington's likeness appeared widely in popular histories and patriotic publications.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notesc1858.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan986 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134891

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