The Home of Washington
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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