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Mount Vernon -- The Home of Washington
This print is a reproduction of an ink and watercolor drawing of Mount Vernon by the English-born merchant Samuel Vaughan in August 1787. One of the earliest images of Mount Vernon, Vaughan's work captured George Washington's meticulous shaping of his estate's landscape. Washington, away at the Constitutional Convention when Vaughan visited, later received the Englishman's drawing. Washington wrote that this image "describes with accuracy the house, walk and shrubs."
R. von Glumer, artist; A. Peters, publisher, Washington, DC, color lithograph, ca 1860 |