Tribute to the Mount Vernon Fund
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This chromolithograph portrait of George Washington was sold to raise money for the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association’s purchase of Washington’s estate from John Augustine Washington III. A fundraising flier advertising the portrait encouraged Americans to form clubs and subscribe to the print for $1 each. The names of subscribers were then printed in the Mount Vernon Record, the MVLA newsletter.
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Date1859
After
Gilbert Stuart
(American, 1755 - 1828)
Lithographer
Unknown
Subject
George Washington
(American, 1732 - 1799)
Geography
Published -
United States
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper; chromolithograph
DimensionsOverall: 18 in. × 13 1/8 in. (45.72 cm × 33.34 cm)
Credit LineGift of Patricia Wegner, 2018
Object numberM-5568
DescriptionThis is an oval bust portrait of George Washington, after Gilbert Stuart’s Athenaeum portrait, surrounded by an interlocking geometric border.MarkingsPrinted in ink above the image: "MV".
Printed in ink below the image: "GW / Virtus Sola Nosilitas / Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1859, by Devereux in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. / Copied from the Original Picture by Gilbert Stuart in Posession of the Boston Athenaeum. / Tribute to the / Mount Vernon Fund.".
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c. 1865
c. 1798
c. 1876
c. 1860