George Washington

George Bissinger
After an original by Jean Antoine Houdon French

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George Bissinger, French crystal-and gem engraver, exhibited 112 different works at the Paris Universal Exhibition 1878, comprising cameos representing the Birth of Venus, a Bacchanalian procession, and a series of remarkable imitations of ancient, Renaissance and 18th century cameos and intaglios of the Paris Cabinet des Médailles.

George Washington, George Bissinger (active 1878), Onyx and gold, French

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