Mount Vernon
Date1839
After
John Gadsby Chapman
(American, 1808 - 1889)
Publisher
James Herring
(American, 1794 - 1867)
Publisher
Apollo Association
(American, active 1838 - 1852)
Geography
Published -
United States
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper, lithograph.
DimensionsOverall (H x W): 9 in. x 11 5/8 in. (22.86 cm x 29.53 cm)
Plate (H x W): Unknown, sheet has been trimmed.
Image (H x W): 7 1/8 in. x 10 1/2 in. (18.1 cm x 26.67 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frederick Goldsborough Procter, in memory of his great, great, grandfather, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, 1963
Object numberEV-1272
DescriptionLandscape format print the northeast facade of the Mount Vernon mansion. Groves of trees frame the image on either side of the house in the foreground. A boat is faintly illustrated on the Potomac River in the background.1839
Published ReferencesG.S. Chamberlain, John Gadsby Chapman: Painter of Virginia, Art Quarterly, Winter 1961, 378-90.
MarkingsPrinted below image on left: “J. G. Chapman del.”.
Printed below image on right: “M. Stuart Sc.”.
Printed below image, centered: “Mount Vernon / Entered According to Act of Congress 1839 by James Herring in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York / New York Published at the Apollo 413(5?) Broadway”.
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published 1835
Published July 3,1886
1844-1850
