George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years

Morgan, Edmund, Miles, Ellen G., USA), Edmund Morgan (Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University,, D.C.), Ellen G. Miles (Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits between 1789 and 1797, collected here in this volume. It suggests that what they all reflect is the great need the new Republic had for portraits of its first chief executive. The book offers a portrait of the original First Couple.

EAN

9780813918860

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

30 March 1999

Pages

64