Memorial for George Washington
1800
Artist, American, active 1803 - 1818
Enoch G. Gridley, after John Coles, Jr.
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving and stipple etching in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.786
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Stephen V. Nagy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963
1981
The World Turned Upside Down, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Washington, DC, 1981-1982
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
1989
Hail, Washington, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Washington, DC, 1989
Inscriptions
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.
Wikidata ID
Q77013520