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).
