G. Washington in his Last Illness
Date1800
Artist
Unknown
Subject
George Washington
(American, 1732 - 1799)
Subject
Martha Washington
(American, 1731 - 1802)
Geography
Published -
United States
DimensionsOverall: 11 13/16 in. x 9 15/16 in. (30 cm x 25.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis in memory of her aunt, Annie Burr Jennings, Vice Regent for Connecticut, 1939
Object numberM-1087/H-2
DescriptionThis print is an image of George Washington on his deathbed attended by two male doctors. Martha Washington appears seated in the background at left, weeping and wearing a small portarit miniature of her husband around her neck.Published ReferencesRichard K. Fenn, The American Culture of Despair, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), xviii.
Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover, Death and the American South, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 63-64.
Barry Cornwall, Effigies Poeticae: Or, The Portraits of the British Poets : Illustrated by Notes Biographical, Critical, and Poetical, Volume 2, (J. Carpenter & Son, 1824), 117.
MarkingsPrinted in ink below the image: "G. Washington in his last illness attended by Docs. Craik and Brown. / Americans behold & shead a greateful tear / for a man who has gained your freedom most dear. / And now is departing into the realms alone / where he may ever rest in lasting peace and love.".
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c. 1886-1887
1800-1830
1860-1870
c. 1772
After 1776
