George Washington

William E. Marshall, American, 1837 - 1906
after Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755 - 1828

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1862

Engraving on wove paper

Sheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906

PR.953.135

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, lower center: ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM E. MARSHALL FROM THE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT IN THE BOSTON ATHENEUM/PAITNED BY GILBERT STUART./G. Washington [facsimile signature]/PRESENTED TO SUBSCRIBERS FOR "THE CHRISTIAN UNION," J.B. FORD & CO. PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK./Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by WILLIAM E. MARSHALL in the clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Copyright of Photographs secured.

Provenance

Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1953

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