Collection Highlights
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Date:
ca. 1906
Object Number:
PR.042.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerchief
Object Number:
1952.61
Date:
ca. 1819
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. ( 69.8 x 59.7 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with a full-length portrait of George Washington with a horse after the "Dorchester Heights" portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart; border of twenty-one stars in squares divided by American bald eagles; printed in sepia ink on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
The portrait of George Washington on this kerchief is after Gilbert Stuart's painting, Washington at Dorchester Heights.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 60.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
