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WASHINGTON AT HOME
Ink, paper
New York:  Currier and Ives
1867
Washington at Home
WASHINGTON AT HOME
Ink, paper
New York:  Currier and Ives
1867
WASHINGTON AT HOME Ink, paper New York: Currier and Ives 1867
Status
Not on view
Date1867
Engraver (American, active 1834 - 1907)
Publisher (American, active 1834 - 1907)
Subject (American, 1732 - 1799)
Subject (American, 1731 - 1802)
Subject (American, 1779 - 1852)
Subject (American, 1781 - 1857)
Geography Printed - United States
DimensionsOverall (frame): 29 in. x 36 in. (73.66 cm x 91.44 cm)
Credit LineGift of Bob Gibby's Family, 2009
Object numberM-4860
DescriptionThis print is a family portrait of George and Martha Washington and their grandchildren seated around a table in an interior scene. On the far right side of the print is a depiction of who is most likely the enslaved domestic servant William Lee.


MarkingsPrinted in ink below the bottom-left corner of the image: "Lith. of Currier & Ives". Printed in ink below the bottom-right corner of the image: "152 Nassau Street, N.Y.". Printed in ink below the image, centered: "Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1867 by Currier & Ives, in the Clerks Office at the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of N.Y. / Washington at Home.". Printed in ink below the image are the names of the figures: "Geo. Washn. Parke Custis.", "Genl. Washington.", "Eleanor Parke Custis.", "Mrs. Washington.".
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