Washington Assumes Command

Washington Assumes Command

20th Century Print


Ralph Boyer (created by)
John Taylor Arms (associated with)
etching
paper, Print
This is print 8 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 Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by his guard of honor, the polished First City Troop of Philadelphia, faces a small group of untrained patriots comprising his new command."

[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
XP68.315.9
Washington, George, 1732-1799