The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va. – Historic Reproduction
![The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1872] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ec/ec90316f53ca-L.webp)
(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 antique lithograph of The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The home of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va.
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Mount Vernon, the Potomac River estate that George Washington built up and lived on for most of his life, is the particular subject here, shown as a hand-colored lithograph issued by the New York firm Currier & Ives sometime between 1856 and 1872. Those were the years when the house had become a national shrine: after Ann Pamela Cunningham's Mount Vernon Ladies' Association began raising money to save the crumbling property in 1858, Washington's home drew steady public attention. Prints like this one, sold cheaply to a growing middle-class market, helped fix the image of the mansion and its broad piazza facing the river in the American imagination.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3105 |
| Subjects | Washington, George,--1732-1799--Homes & haunts--Virginia--Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)--1850-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109479 |
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