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His Excel: G: Washington Esq.

  • ARTIST: Charles Willson Peale

  • PUBLISHER: No engravers or publishers name given

  • MEDIUM: Line and stipple engraving,

    DATE: undated, c.1795

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 15/16 x 4 13/16" (17.6 x 12.2 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: No engravers name given. This unusual portrait is listed in Hart under Charles Wilson Peale and was based on (Hart 4), the J. Trenchard (engraver attributed to) portrait. In this case he notes that the "Plate very much worn, Oval entirely reworked, in stipple, an head of Stuart type substituted for the Peale, evidently by a different engraver." A rare 18th century American produced primitive portrait of George Washington.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition save for small area of paper fill in right margin, outside of plate mark.

  • REFERENCE: Hart, "Engraved portraits of George Washington", 4a;