La Fayette at the Tomb of Washington
Date1840
Subject
Marquis de Lafayette
(French, 1757 - 1834)
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper; hand-colored lithograph.
DimensionsOverall: 14 in. x 10 1/8 in. (35.56 cm x 25.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis in memory of her aunt, Annie Burr Jennings, Vice Regent for Connecticut, 1939
Object numberM-1087/C
DescriptionThis print is an image of the Marquis de Lafayette viewing the New Tomb of Washington on the Mount Vernon estate.MarkingsPrinted in ink below the bottom-left corner of the image: "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier".
Printed in ink below the image, centered: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1845 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N. Y. / La Fayette at / The Tomb of Washington. / Mount Vernon, Va."
Printed in ink below the bottom-right corner of the image: "2 Spruce St., N.Y. "
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c. 1820-1825
c. 1840
c. 1840