Lady Washington's reception. [engraving]

Lady Washington's reception. [engraving]

New York Emil Seitz [1867]

1 hand colored print ; inside mat 62 x 91 cm. ; inside frame 75 x 105 cm.; outside frame 85 x 115 cm.

P&E L1998G23.6 framed

Depicts Martha Washington greeting her guests at tea in a room in the President's house in New York. The event pictured was supposed to have taken place on 1 January 1790, but the artist took the liberty of including some guests who probably were not present on that day. Among the guests pictured are Generals Lincoln, Knox, and Greene, Mr. and Mrs. John Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, the artists Gilbert Stuart and Jonathan Trumbull, and both Nellie and George Washington Parke Custis. Stipple. Below the title it reads: "From the original picture in the possession of A. T. Stewart, Esq."
For a description and numbered key of those shown in the engraving, see Description of Mr. Huntington's picture of Lady Washington's reception day. New York: Emil Seitz, s.d. ( 923. 173 W31 8hunt MB). A xeroxed copy of key can be found in the case file for the Walter P. Swain, Jr., Memorial Collection/Keeler gift.
Framed using gold burnished and silk mats with blue mat fillet; 2-inch gold leaf frame, ray panel, egg and dart design on inner edge, wreath design in corners.
The Walter P. Swain Jr. Memorial Collection; gift of Philip S. Keeler, Jr.
An unframed, black and white copy of this engraving, without letters and catalogued with the title [Lady Washington's reception day] as P&E L1969.18.1ff.
Digitized image available.

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