The Tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon VA

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The Tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon VA
The Tomb of Washington: Mount Vernon VA
Artist/Maker
Publisher (American, 1857 - 1907)
Dateunknown
MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 11 1/2 × 16 1/16 in. (29.2 × 40.8 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 1/4 in. (34.3 × 43.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891, 1959
Object number1959.87
Not on view
DescriptionScene of Washington's tomb with a few figures walking around the monument.
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Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Markings None noted.
Published References Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 6110
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed "PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES," at lower left in typeset in black ink; "152 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK." at lower right in typeset in black ink; "THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON. / MOUNT VERNON V.A." at lower center in typeset in black ink.
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. April 14th, 1865
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. April 14th, 1865
Unknown artist
Date: published 1865
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.8
The Sacred Tomb of the Blessed Redeemer
The Sacred Tomb of the Blessed Redeemer
Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1949.13
The Sacred Tomb of the Blessed Virgin
The Sacred Tomb of the Blessed Virgin
Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1949.14
The Capitol at Washington
The Capitol at Washington
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.18
Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh, New York
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Unknown artist, American
Date: c. 1880
Medium: Albumen print mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2024.4.6
A Moonshine Scene, from Harper's Weekly
A Moonshine Scene, from Harper's Weekly
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 27, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.277
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Bird's Eye View of Mt. Vernon
Unknown artist
Date: published 1859
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.131
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Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.22
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Currier & Ives
Date: published 1870
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.35
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Nathanial Currier
Date: published 1846
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.89
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Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Honoré Daumier
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Medium: Lithograph on paper
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Lt. John Herbert Caddy
Date: published February 1, 1837
Medium: Hand-colored aquatint on paper
Object number: 1971.39.7