The Home of Washington

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Date1860

After Thomas Prichard Rossiter (American, 1818 - 1871)

After Louis Rémy Mignot (American, 1831 - 1870)

Engraver Thomas Oldham Barlow (English, 1824 - 1889)

Publisher John McClure (American active c.1893 - 1929)

Subject George Washington (American, 1732 - 1799)

Subject Martha Washington (American, 1731 - 1802)

Subject Marquis de Lafayette (French, 1757 - 1834)

Geography Published - United States

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

DimensionsImage (H x W): 18 1/2 in. × 29 7/8 in. (46.99 cm × 75.88 cm) Overall (H x W): 31 7/8 in. × 41 3/16 in. (80.96 cm × 104.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis in memory of her aunt, Annie Burr Jennings, Vice Regent for Connecticut, 1939

Object numberM-1087/BB

DescriptionThis print is a group portrait of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette on the piazza of the Mount Vernon mansion with other members of the household. This image was meant to portray life at Mount Vernon in 1784, after the American Revolutionary War.
Published ReferencesAntiques Magazine, (March, 1945): 166-7.

The Old Print Shop Portfolio, (December, 1941).

William Coolidge Lane, A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenaeum, (Boston, 1897), 378.

MarkingsPrinted in ink below the image: "The Home of Washington". Printed in ink below the bottom-right corner of the image: "Engraved by Thomas Oldham Barlow".

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