Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(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]

Additional Details

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.