Collection Highlights
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781-1853)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.4
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Cloth: George Washington w/shield of U.S.
Object Number:
1938.2
Date:
ca. 1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 3/8 x 17 3/8 in. ( 61.9 x 44.1 cm )
Marks:
printed: on shields: "SHIELD OF U.S. AMERICA"
printed: above portrait: "WASHINGTON"
Description:
Printed cotton textile panel 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.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
