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Luce Center
Washington, Lafayette, and Young G.W. Parke Custis, On the Portico of Mount Vernon, 1784
Object Number:
1936.1002
Date:
1917
Medium:
Graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. ( 29.2 x 21 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Ogden. Inscribed on back; center bottom
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Ogden"; inscribed at lower center: "On the Portico of Mt Vernon. 1784 / 'A very lttle gentleman ** holding fast to one finger of / the good general's remarkable hand...Lafayette to E.W.C Custis in 1825."
Description:
History
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Harry A. Ogden
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