Download or read book The Famous Bust of George Washington written by Harrison Howell Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1932* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Famous Bust of George Washington Made from Life at Mount Vernon by the Great French Sculptor Jean Houdon in 1795 written by Jean Antoine Houdon and published by . This book was released on 1932* with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canova s George Washington written by Xavier F. Salomon and published by Giles. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Canova's "George Washington," on view at the Frick Collection, May 23-September 23, 2018, and the Canova Museum.
Download or read book George Washington Jean Antoine Houdon Sculptor written by Gorham Manufacturing Company and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presentation by the People of Virginia of a Copy of Houdon s Statue of George Washington to the People of the Republic of France written by Virginia. Commission on Presentation of a Copy of Houdon's Statue of Washington to France and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington in Sculpture written by Frances Dean Whittemore and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Washington His Person as Represented by the Artists written by Sherwin McRae and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hampton L Carson Collection of Engraved Portraits of Gen George Washington written by Hampton Lawrence Carson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington written by Barbara J. Mitnick and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is also an image that has resisted fundamental revision over the course of two centuries because of the force of Washington's character, the clarity of his political purposes, and the intensity of his charisma.
Download or read book The Many Faces of George Washington written by Carla Killough McClafferty and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the life of America’s first president and the efforts to recreate what he may have actually looked like at different points of that life. George Washington’s face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since his birth in 1732. And yet even in his lifetime, no picture seemed to capture the likeness of the man who is now the most iconic of all our presidents. Worse still, people today often see this founding father as the “old and grumpy” Washington on the dollar bill. In 2005 a team of historians, scientists, and artisans at Mount Vernon set out to change the image of our first president. They studied paintings and sculptures, pored over Washington’s letters to his tailors and noted other people’s comments about his appearance, even closely examined the many sets of dentures that had been created for Washington. Researchers tapped into skills as diverse as 18th-century leatherworking and cutting-edge computer programming to assemble truer likenesses. Their painstaking research and exacting processes helped create three full-body representations of Washington as he was at key moments in his life. And all along the way, the team gained new insight into a man who was anything but “old and grumpy.” Join award-winning author Carla Killough McClafferty as she unveils the statues of the three Georges and rediscovers the man who became the face of a new nation.
Download or read book George Washington a Brief History of Houdon s Most Famous Sculpture written by Gorham Manufacturing Company and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrated Catalog of Relics and Memorabilia of George Washington written by American Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Houdon Bust of George Washington written by Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington Vignettes and Memorabilia written by George Washington Nordham and published by Dorrance Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiencing Mount Vernon written by Jean Butenhoff Lee and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington, acutely aware of the accomplishments and potential of the American Revolution, used his Mount Vernon estate both to preserve the memory of events that had created a new nation and to forward his keen vision of what that nation might become. During the 1780s and 1790s, an era when neither public museums nor a national library existed, visitors to Mount Vernon viewed John Trumbull's iconic image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Houdon's famous bust of the countryís preeminent hero, and Washington's voluminous wartime correspondence. More important, they listened as the Washingtons recalled the remarkable events that had forged independence and the unique American experiment in representative government. At Mount Vernon, too, Washington and his guests discussed how best to secure the success and well-being of the United States. Here was a place to contemplate "what the nation, at its best, might be." Following George and Martha Washington's deaths, the estate passed to four successive heirs, the last of whom deeded it to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1860. While still in private hands, the property nonetheless attracted thousands of visitors each year, most of whom arrived after a fifteen-mile overland trek from Washington, D.C. With the establishment of regular steamboat access in the 1850s, the numbers swelled to ten thousand annually. The public claimed Mount Vernon as its own. In the words of a nineteenth-century Washington family member, "the Nation shares it with us." In a remarkable display of civic religion that testified to the siteís enormous hold on the public imagination, Americans pronounced Mount Vernon sacred ground and made it the nationís most important site of revolutionary memory and inspiration. The sacred ground was, nonetheless, contested ground: visitors criticized the heirs' management of the property; northerners abhorred the persistence of slavery at the estate. As pilgrims contemplated the highest ideals of the Revolution at Washington's home and tomb, they often found their own society wanting. Amid escalating sectional strife in the 1850s, some argued that if Mount Vernon could be saved for the nation, the nation might be preserved from ruin. In letters and journals, newspaper and magazine articles, and public speeches, visitors recorded, often in detail and with intense emotion, their varied reactions to the site. Experiencing Mount Vernon presents the most informative of these accounts, as well as selected documents from the Washington owners (beginning with Washington himself, who in 1784 prematurely wrote Lafayette that, at his beloved home, he had "retired from all public employments"). Numerous maps, contemporary images, and annotations complement the texts. This book constitutes the only eyewitness chronicle we have of the Washington estate's ascent to the status of national shrine, and it offers the closest possible evidence of Mount Vernonís singular role in helping forge American national identity.
Download or read book History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration written by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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