The Dancing Shepherds
As his presidency neared its end, George Washington took advantage of being in Philadelphia, the nation's commercial capital, to buy a large group of prints and frames for Mount Vernon. Many of these impressions, including Dancing Shepherds, were classical landscapes published in England in the tradition of the seventeenth-century artist, Claude Lorrain. Most hung in Mount Vernon's central passage, a broad through hall whose walls were conducive for the display of such large, fine art prints.
Published ReferencesReginald Grundy, The Conoisseur, (London, February 1921), xlv.
George D. Morse, Catalogue of Rare Americana: Being Duplicates from the New York Public Library, (New York: The Anderson Auction Company, June 1905), 4.
Joseph Allan Nolan, The Library of George Gordon King: Part II. -The Prints, (New York, 1885), 251.