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George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left – Vintage Photo Print

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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This rare historic print captures George Washington, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A color halftone reproduction of Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum likeness of George Washington, this print copies the face-forward, slightly turned head-and-shoulders pose that Stuart painted in the 1790s and that became one of the most copied images of the first president. Stuart worked from life, and the portrait's unfinished look and soft, reddish tones gave later printmakers a warm, familiar Washington to reproduce. Around 1929, when this print was made by the Boston firm Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, the image was widely used in schoolbooks, patriotic displays, and commercial calendars, and the halftone process made it easy to produce in quantity.

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 × 1,864 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
Reference31_00004

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