Life of George Washington: The Christian Death 1853 Size:36x24 surrounded by the wife and

surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing

The image carries the strange tenderness of enemies attending one another in the long aftermath of three days' carnage

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Life of George Washington: The Christian Death 1853 Size:36x24 surrounded by the wife andLife of George Washington: The Christian Death 1853 a mid century lithograph rendering the General's final hour as scripture, his Mount Vernon bedside arranged with the solemnity of an altar. The print belongs to that antebellum hunger to canonize the founders, casting Washington less as statesman than as Protestant saint expiring on cue. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,