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George Washington

Benjamin Tanner (American, 1775–1848)
After: Edward Savage (American, 1761–1817)
undated, but possibly 1800

Medium/Technique Stipple engraving
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP12734
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Baker, Engraved Portraits of Washington, 135 [?]
DescriptionThis may the portrait Tanner engraved for The Washingtoniana (Baltimore: Printed and sold by Samuel Sower, 1800), but the MFA impression bears no direct indication of that source.
Signed In plate, at lower right: Tanner sc.
InscriptionsIn plate, below image: G. Washington.
In plate, at lower left: Savage pinx.
In plate, at lower right: Tanner sc.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, N.Y.; date acquired: 1897