Mount Vernon in Virginia
Date1800
Medium/TechniqueInk and watercolor on paper; hand-colored aquatint.
DimensionsImage (H x W): 12 1/2 in. × 17 1/2 in. (31.75 cm × 44.45 cm)
Overall: 14 5/16 in. × 18 1/8 in. (36.35 cm × 46.04 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis in memory of her aunt, Annie Burr Jennings, Vice Regent for Connecticut, 1939
Conservation courtesy of The Founders, Washington Committee Endowment Fund
Object numberM-1087/X
DescriptionThis print is an early view of the east front of the Mount Vernon mansion.Published ReferencesI.N. Phelps Stokes and Daniel C. Haskell, American Historical Prints: Early Views of American Cities, (New York: The New York Public Library, 1933), 45.
Mrs. William Thornton, Records of the Columbia Historical Society Vol. X, 1907, 175.
MarkingsPrinted in ink below the left corner of the image: "Alexander Robertson Delineavit / London Pub. March 31st 1800 by F. Jukes No. 10 Howland Street".
Printed in ink below the image, centered: "Mount Vernon in Virginia. / The Seat of the Late Lieut. General George Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States".
Printed in ink below the right corner of the image: "Francis Jukes Sculpsit / And by Al. Robertson Columbian Academy Liberty Street New York".
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