The Life of George Washington: The Christian (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 right: "Lith by REGNIER. Imp Lemercier Paris"; 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 CHRISTIAN/ GOUPIL & Co./ New-York, Paris, London & Berlin."; lower right corner: ".....he then asked if I recollected any thing which it was essential for him to do, as he had a very short time/ to tarry with us. I told him that I could recollect nothing but that I hoped he was not so near his end./ He observed smiling that he certainly was, and that as it was a debt we must all pay he looked to/ the event with perfect resignation./ (Sparks, life of Washington)"
Gift of Mrs. George Roche and Miss Grace McDonough
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