Valentine Green
General Washington

General Washington

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General Washington
ArtistEnglish, 1739–1813
ArtistAmerican, 1756–1843
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • General Washington
Date1781
Printed inLondon, England
MediumMezzotint with engraving on laid paper
DimensionsSheet (Irregular): 25 1/8 × 17 in. (63.8 × 43.2 cm)
 Plate: 25 × 16 in. (63.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.55.19
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionArtist John Trumbull served as an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the early years of the Revolutionary War and painted the portrait on which this print is based years later while studying in London. The image was widely copied, as in this mezzotint engraving by Valentine Green. At the right side of the scene stands Washington’s enslaved servant William Lee. Trumbull depicted Lee wearing a turban, following an artistic convention that used such articles of clothing to signify and express perceptions of racial difference an identity.
Provenance[M. Knoedler & Co., New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, June 6, 1955; given to MFAH.
Exhibition History"Radicals and Revolutionaries: America's Founding Fathers," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 10–May 28, 2018.

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