William Marshall

George Washington. [Untitled.]

Chine-colle, copper plate engraving, 1862.
Image size 13 1/2 x 11 1/4" (34.2 x 38.5 cm).
Good condition. LOCATION: New York City

Inventory Number: 19136
Price: $500.00
Publisher : Published by Ticknor & Fields, 135 Washington St. Boston. One of the finest mid-nineteenth portraits of the first President.

Signed in pencil "Wm. E. Marshall" and proofed by the National Bank Note Company. Based on the painting by Gilbert Stuart that hangs in the Boston Athenaeum.

An impression of Marshall's portrait of Washington had the dubious honor of hanging on the bunting below the President's box at Ford's Theater when President Lincoln was assassinated.

Marshall would issue a finely engraved portrait of Lincoln in 1866. 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , George Washington

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