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Washington and His Family
This print, after Edward Savage's painting The Washington Family, is one of the most famous images of George Washington's extended family. Washington is shown studying an early map of the new Federal City. His position above the map illustrates his fatherly interest in shaping the city that would later bear his name. George and Martha Washington are pictured with their grandchildren, Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis, and an enslaved house servant.
After Edward Savage, artist; William Sartain, engraver; Bradley & Co, publisher, Philadelphia, mezzotint, 1864. |