Lot 1147: Cornelius Tiebout (1773 or 1777-1832) after Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Fine American and European Furniture, Silver, Folk and Decorative Arts and Clocks

George Washington, circa 1865 Engraving Published by Wm. Smith, 702 S. 3rd Street, Engraving, Philadelphia 20 1/4 x 13 1/8in (51.4 x 33.9cm)

51.4 x 33.9cm

Tiebout lived a major portion of his life in Philadelphia, where this portrait of George Washington was later published by William Smith. See William S. Baker, The Engraved Portraits of Washington (Philadelphia, 1880), no. 407; Charles Henry Hart, Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington (New York, 1904), no. 676; I.N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 6 vols. New York, 1915, p. 14; Patricia A. Anderson, Promoted to Glory: The Apotheosis of George Washington, exhibition catalogue, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1980, p. 50; Wendy Wick Reaves, George Washington, An American Icon: The Eighteenth Century Portraits., exhibition catalogue, The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Portrait Gallery, (Washington DC, 1982), pp. 130-131; Margaret Brown Klapthor and Howard Alexander Morrison, G. Washington: A Figure Upon the Stage, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1982, p. 20; and Robert I. Goler, Capital City: New York after the Revolution, exhibition catalogue, Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York, 1987, cover.