George Washington: A National Treasure

by Margaret C.S. Christman, Ellen Gross Miles, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), et al.

Book Overview

George Washington: A National Treasure celebrates our nation's permanent acquisition of Gilbert Stuart's magnificent "Landsdowne" portrait of George Washington. Commissioned For The Marquis of Lansdowne, a British supporter of American independence, The painting shows Washington in the last year of his presidency, 1796. Here is a George Washington For The ages, resolute in the face of the multiple crises of our nation's beginnings; grand in the tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295982373
• ISBN13: 9780295982373
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 12.0"