Valentine Green
General Washington

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Artist Valentine Green (English, 1739–1813)English, 1739–1813

Artistafter John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843)American, 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

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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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