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Images of George Washington

Images of George Washington. Gilbert Stuart Landsdowne Portrait 1796. Gilbert Stuart Landsdowne Portrait 1796. Charles Wilson Peale George Washington at the Battle of Princeton 1779-81.

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Images of George Washington

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  1. Images of George Washington

  2. Gilbert Stuart Landsdowne Portrait1796

  3. Gilbert Stuart Landsdowne Portrait1796

  4. Charles Wilson PealeGeorge Washington at the Battle of Princeton1779-81

  5. Figure 29-31 HORATIO GREENOUGH, George Washington, 1840. Marble, 11’ 4” high. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

  6. Figure 29-31 HORATIO GREENOUGH, George Washington, 1840. Marble, 11’ 4” high. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • George Washington is likened to a god by depicting him seminude and enthroned in the manner of Phidians’s Olympian statue of Zeus, king of the Greek gods • Statue was rejected by both the Congress and the public when complete.

  7. Figure 29-30 JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, George Washington, 1788-1792. Marble, 6’ 2” high. State Capitol, Richmond. • Houdon was the leading French Neoclassical sculptor of the late 18thc chosen to represent a life-size marble statue of Virginia-born Washington • “column” is a bundle of rods with an ax attached-the ancient Roman fasces • 13 rods represent the 13 states.

  8. Antonio Cavona 1815-21

  9. Giuseppe Caracchi1795marble

  10. Thomas Crawford1858Richmond, VA

  11. Emanuel Leutze Washington Crossing the Delaware 1851oil on canvas

  12. Parson Weem’s Fable Grant Wood 1 939 oil on canvas

  13. Washington Monument, Mills 1848-85

  14. Robert ColescottGeorge Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware 1975

  15. Larry Rivers Washington Crossing the Delaware 1953 oil on canvas

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