George Washington Eqer. Général en Chef de L'Armee Anglo-Americaine nommé Dictateur par le Congres en Fevrier 1777.
Datec. 1777-1780
Engraver
Jean- Victor Dupin
(French, b. 1718)
After
Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Publishing house
Esnauts et Rapilly
(French, 1775 - 1811)
Subject
George Washington
(American, 1732 - 1799)
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper, etching
DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 7 3/8 in. × 5 1/8 in. (18.73 cm × 13.02 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, 1998
Object numberPrint-5193/RP-810
Published ReferencesWilliam S. Baker, The Engraved Portraits of Washington (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Baker, 1880), 58.Charles Henry Hart. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington (New York: The Grolier Club, 1904), 743.
Wendy Wick, George Washington, An American Icon: The Eighteenth Century Graphic Portraits (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1982), 20.
MarkingsPrinted within bottom of image: “GEORGE WASHINGTON EQ er/Général en Chef de l’Armée Anglo-Amériquaine, nommé/Dictaeur par le Congres en Fevrier 1777.”
Printed below image: “A Paris chez. Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St Jacques, a la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R.”
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1778
c. 1776
1780-1790