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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009 (Accession Number 2009-18-10) / https://www.philamuseum.org/collection/object/307901IMAGE INFORMATION

A small mezzotinto of a head of Genl. Washington done by Mr. Peale of this city

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

February 1779

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 37v

Notes:

For Peale's 1778 mezzotint, the first authentic likeness of Washington to appear in print, see Wendy Wick Reaves, "'His Excellency Genl Washington': Charles Willson Peale's Long-Lost Mezzotint Discovered," American Art Journal, Vol. 24, no. 1/2 (1992): 44-59.

Du Simitière recorded the receipt of another copy of this print in Jan 1781 (MB, 59r).