Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(WASHINGTON.) Unknown engraver; after Charles Wilson Peale. His Excellency General Washington / Lady Washington. Hand-colored engraving, 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; heavy toning, tightly trimmed as usual, with edge wear touching decorative borders, minor dampstaining, laid down on old board. Np, 1780s?
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These portraits were apparently issued before Washington's election to the presidency. "Plainly early American work, and the only two copies I have seen were found in the interior of Pennsylvania. Both copies have been clipped"--Hart 47. One institutional copy traced, at the Boston Athenaeum (separated into two prints); none traced at auction. Provenance: purchased from New York dealer G.K.S. Bush in 1983 as a Christmas gift, per note on frame.