Washington AEt. 40.

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• ARTIST: Charles Willson Peale

• PUBLISHER: No publisher noted.

• MEDIUM: Engraving,

  DATE: Undated. c. 1850

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 4 3/4 x 3 7/8" (12 x 9.7 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: Engraving by by J.W. Paradise from a painting by J.G. Chapman after C.W. Peale.<br><br> Painted in 1772, this is the earliest portrait of George Washington. It shows him wearing his colonel's uniform of the Virginia Regiment from the French and Indian War. The portrait was painted about 12 years after Washington's service in that war, and several years before he would reenter military service in the American Revolution.<br><br> Charles Willson Peale (1741 – 1827) American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist.

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• CONDITION: Good condition. B/W

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Presidents