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Artist/Maker
Unknown artist
Publisher
Francis Donaldine Bell and George Henry Frederick Bell
(American & Australian, 1885 -1970 & 1878 - 1966)
Datepublished 1859
MediumColor lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 9 3/4 in. × 14 in. (24.8 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 in. × 15 1/2 in. (30.5 × 39.4 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.131
Not on view
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Additional Details
Provenance
1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Signature
Signed and dated in typeset at lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by G. & F. BILL the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts
Inscribed
Signed and dated in typeset at lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by G. & F. BILL the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts; entitled in typeset at lower center: BIRDS EYE VIEW OF / MT. VERNON / THE HOME OF WASHINGTON.; inscribed in typeset at lower left: No. 1. Mansion 94 by 47 / 2. Kitchens / 3. Store Houses / 4. Green House / 5. Gardners Houses / 6. Brick Stable / 7. Summer House; in typeset at lower right: 8. Tomb / 9. Seed House / 10. Lawn in Rear / 11. Vegetale Garden / 12. Flower Garden / 13. Plank Walk to Landing / 14. Orchard.; in pencil on verso at lower left: HC 126
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1880s
Medium: Albumen print from a collodion negative
Object number: 2021.12.335
Gordon Coster
Date: c. 1930s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.72
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: c. 1897
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.4
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.87
D.W. Kellogg & Company
Date: unknown
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.143
Unknown artist
Date: probably mid-16th century
Medium: Double-sided watercolor, ink, and gold leaf on paper
Object number: 1986.29.1a-b
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Date: unknown
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.167
Unknown artist, American
Date: unknown
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.170
John James Audubon
Date: published 1832
Medium: Engraving and aquatint with hand-coloring
Object number: 1985.20