Lot 1170: Two Views of Mount Vernon Fine American and European Furniture, Silver, Folk and Decorative Arts and Clocks

The first: Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889) after Thomas Pritchard Rossiter (1818-1871) and Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870) The Home of Washington, 1863 Colored engraving Published by Henry T. Williams, New York 18 1/2 x 29 3/4in (47.0 x 75.5cm) The second: Nathaniel Currier & James Ives The Home of Washington, 1857-72 Colored lithograph 11 1/4 x 15 7/8in (28.6 x 40.3cm)

47.0 x 75.5cm

By the middle of the nineteenth century, a major effort was underway to both acquire and restore Washington's home, Mount Vernon. In 1858, Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham founded The Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, an organization that raised the money and completed the restoration work; it continues to maintain the estate to this day. Both of these scenes were produced during the early years of the restoration. See Robert Harley, "George Washington Lived Here: Some Early Prints of Mount Vernon, Part II" The Magazine Antiques, (March, 1945), pp. 167.