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Title: Le Général Washington, Commendant en Chef des Armées Americaines, né en Virginie en 1733 (General Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Armies, born in Virginia in 1733 [sic])
Series/Portfolio: Lavater, Essai sur Physigonomie
Artist:
After Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741–1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:
Christian von Mechel (Swiss, Basel 1737–1817 Berlin)
Author:
Related author Johann Caspar Lavater (Swiss, Zurich 1741–1801 Zurich)
Sitter:
George Washington (American, 1732–1799)
Published in: Basle
Date: after 1783
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions:
Plate: 8 15/16 × 6 5/8 in. (22.7 × 16.8 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (31.7 × 23 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of William Henry Huntington, 1883
Accession Number: 83.2.2015(19)
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