The Washington Family

Status

Not on view

Date1798

After Edward Savage (American, 1761 - 1817)

Engraver Edward Savage (American, 1761 - 1817)

Publisher Edward Savage (American, 1761 - 1817)

Publisher Robert Wilkinson (English, active c.1760 - 1825)

Subject George Washington (American, 1732 - 1799)

Subject Martha Washington (American, 1731 - 1802)

Subject William Lee (American, 1772 - 1840)

Subject Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (American, 1779 - 1852)

Subject George Washington Parke Custis (American, 1781 - 1857)

Geography Published - England

Medium/TechniqueInk and watercolor on paper; hand-colored stipple engraving.

DimensionsOverall (finished size): 22 in. × 28 3/16 in. (55.88 cm × 71.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Robert E. Wright Family, in memory of Dorothy Walton Wright and Robert Edward Wright, 2012 Conservation courtesy of The Founders, Washington Committee Endowment Fund

Object numberW-5298

DescriptionThis print is a group portrait of the Washington Family and an enslaved servant, most likely intended to be William Lee.
Published ReferencesWendy Wick, George Washington, An American Icon: The Eighteenth Century Graphic Portraits (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1982), 122-124.

Charles Henry Hart, Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington, (New York: The Grolier Club, 1904), 110.

William Spohn Baker, The Engraved Portraits of Washington, (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Baker, 1880).

MarkingsPrinted in ink below the bottom edge of the image: “Printed and Engrav’d by E. Savage." Printed in ink below the image, on the left: "The Washington Family. / George Washington, his Lady, and her two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis." Printed in ink below the image, on the right: "La Famille de Washington. / George Washington, Son Epouse, et Ses deux petits Enfants du Nom du Custis.”

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