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John Wesley Paradise, after Gilbert Stuart, with Theodore Durand, after Isaac F. Bragg

Eulogy to George Washington, 1835

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Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 54.29 × 39.69 cm (21 3/8 × 15 5/8 in.)

sheet (irregular): 58.26 × 45.4 cm (22 15/16 × 17 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.3526

Artists / Makers

John Wesley Paradise (artist) American, 1809 - 1862

Gilbert Stuart (artist after) American, 1755 - 1828

Theodore Durand (artist) American, active 1830s

Isaac F. Bragg (artist after) American, 1785 - 1876

Leonard Hunt (publisher)

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Inscription

text in plate:
In Honor / of / George Washington / the simple majesty of whose Character, / Too Sublime / For Elaborate Eulogy, / like the lineaments / of his / Extraordinary / Countenance, / will never cease to be familiar / to Virtuous Humanity / until time shall close his records / and the Heavens / shall pass away as a Scroll. / Born Feb. 22d. 1732. / Died Dec. 14th. 1799. / Patriae Pater. / Painted by G.C. Stuart. / Eng. by J.W. Paradise. / Composed & Design'd by Isaac F. Bragg / Entered according to act of Congress by Leonard Hunt A.D. 1835 in the Clerks office of the District Court of the United States for the South District of New York. / Engraved by Theo. Durand.

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1904: Hart, Charles Henry. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington. New York, Grolier Club, 1904, p. 244, no. 580.