Memorial for George Washington, 1800

Not on View

Medium

engraving and stipple etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 32.86 × 22.7 cm (12 15/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

sheet: 33.34 × 23.5 cm (13 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.786

Artists / Makers

Enoch G. Gridley (artist) American, active 1803 - 1818

John Coles, Jr. (artist after) American, c. 1778 - 1854

Image Use

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Inscription

text on monument in plate:
Sacred to the Memory of the / truly Illustrious / GEORGE WASHINGTON, Renowned in / War, Great in the Senate, and / possessed of every Qualification / to render him worthy of the Title of / a GREAT and GOOD MAN. / BORN Feb. 22, 1732. Ob. Dec. 14, 1799.

Provenance

(Stephen V. Nagy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Nagy, Stephen V.

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

1981: The World Turned Upside Down, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Washington, DC, 1981-1982

1989: Hail, Washington, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Washington, DC, 1989