Lot 73: George Jacob Beck 1748-1812 , Georgetown and Washington City gouache on paper

painted 1795-1797 In the original frame and églomisé mat. gouache on paper

measurements 15 in. by 20 in. alternate measurements 38.1 cm by 50.8 cm

The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, Columbia University Press, 1987
Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt, revised edition, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969, pp. 173-174, no. 76G
"Recorders, Deceivers, and Dreamers", The Kennedy Quarterly, January, 1965, pp. 69-70

Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt, Detroit, Michigan
Kennedy Gallieries, Inc., New York

According to J. Hall Pleasants ("Four Late 18th Century Anglo-American Landscape Painters", Proceedings, American Antiquarian Society, reprint, October, 1943, p.15) this view was executed during Beck's Baltimore period. Georgetown and City of Washington is the original for the aquatint, George-Town and Federal City, or City of Washington, published on June 1, 1801, as well as the original design for decoration on Staffordshire china.