The Constitutional Convention
20th Century Print
1932 (Date manufactured/created)
etching
paper, Print
9 1/2 in. H
X
13 3/4 in. W
14.75 inches H X 19.5 inches W
14.75 inches H X 19.5 inches W
This is print 17 of 20 from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington issued in cooperation with the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and with its approval. The set was edited by John Taylor Arms with Harry Ogden as associate editor and Dorothy Noyes Arms as a contributor. The set includes 20 original etchings, each executed and signed by a distinguished American artist, with an essay on the national hero by Dixon Ryan Fox of Columbia University. It was published in New York in 1932.
This print depicts: "Denied the enjoyment of private life by a new public emergency, Washington reluctantly emerges from retirement as Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention."
[information taken from the title page/print of the collection and 6 other pages of essays and information on the prints and artists]
This print depicts: "Denied the enjoyment of private life by a new public emergency, Washington reluctantly emerges from retirement as Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention."
[information taken from the title page/print of the collection and 6 other pages of essays and information on the prints and artists]
Gift of The George Washington Memorial Association in Memory of Arthur R. Kimball, 1933
XP68.315.18