(WASHINGTON GEORGE) Gridley Enoch G engraver; after John Col

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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Gridley, Enoch G., engraver; after John Coles. Pater Patriae: Sacred to the Memory of the Truly Illustrious George Washington. Engraving, 14 x 10 inches; several short tears in margins, all tastefully repaired. [Boston, 1800]

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A Washington memorial print. An inset Washington portrait (after Edward Savage) appears on a monument tended by allegorical figures of Minerva and Fame, whose trumpet blasts out his greatest victories: "Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, Yorktown." The plaque calls Washington "Renowned in War, Great in the Senate, and possessed of every Qualification to render him worthy of the Title of a Great and Good Man." A soldier weeps in the foreground. Hart 221.