Washington's Courtship
20th Century Print
1932 (Date manufactured/created)
etching
paper, Print
This is print 5 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: "The young widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, and the gallant Colonel, recently returned from a trip to the Ohio country, shown in a beautiful Virginia Garden."
[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: "The young widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, and the gallant Colonel, recently returned from a trip to the Ohio country, shown in a beautiful Virginia Garden."
[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
XP68.315.6