The Life of George Washington: The Soldier (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 1854 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 SOLDIER/ GOUPIL & Co/ New York, Paris, London & Berlin"; lower right: "Lith by RÉGNIER_ Imp Lemercier Paris". Printed in lower right corner: "During the whole of the bastle of Monongahela Col. Washington behaved with the greatest/ courage. "By the all powerfull dispensations of providence." Said he in a letter to his brother, "I have been/ protected beyond all human probability or expectation, for I had four bullets through my coat and two hor-/ ses shot under me, yet, I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me."/ Spark's, life of Washington.)
Gift of Mrs. George Roche and Miss Grace McDonough
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