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General Washington's Resignation Wall Art
ART BY: Alexander Lawson
General Washington's Resignation Wall Art
ART BY: Alexander Lawson
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About this artwork
General Washington's Resignation is an engraving and etching; second state by Alexander Lawson (1808–1814), dated 1799. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2500 × 4000 px (3.9 MB). It is filed under Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 15 works by Alexander Lawson.
Alexander Lawson was a Scottish-American intaglio artist and engraver based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who earned renown as the primary engraver of American Ornithology 9 vols. (1808–1814), authored by Alexander Wilson (1766–1813). Lawson engraved fifty copper plates for that work, and also contributed to the extended editions authored or edited by George Ord (1781–1866) and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857). Lawson also engraved for several magazines in Philadelphia, including the Port Folio and Philadelphia Medical Museum.
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