The Life of George Washington: The Farmer (Primary Title)
After, Junius Brutus Stearns, American, 1810 - 1885 (Artist)
Claude Regnier, French, died 1860 (Lithographer)
Imprimerie Lemercier et cie., French, Paris 1837 - 1901 (Printer)
Printed beneath image, lower left: "Painted by STEARNS"; lower center: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853 by M. Knoedler, in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York/ LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON/ THE FARMER"; lower right: "Lith by RÉGNIER_ Imp Lemercier Paris". Printed in lower right corner: "........having effected the great object for which he was placed at the head of our armies, we have/ seen him convert the sword into the ploughshare and sink the soldier in the citizen./ (Speech of John Marshall before Congress)"
Gift of Mrs. George Roche and Miss Grace McDonough
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