Collection Highlights
The Rail Candidate
Date:
1860
Object Number:
PR.010.1860.Rail
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Panel: image of George Washington w/horse
Object Number:
X.106
Date:
ca. 1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 17 1/4 in. ( 61 x 43.8 cm )
Marks:
printed: above portrait: "WASHINGTON"
printed: on shields: "SHIELD OF U.S. AMERICA"
Description:
Printed cotton kerchief with a full length equestrian portrait of George Washington in a medallion with a shield of America above and below printed in red, blue, sepia, tan, and pink on a white ground; red and white striped background; red, white, and blue border.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 188.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
