xml/lby.00154.xml Icons of Liberty: Apotheosis of George Washington

John James Barralet, Apotheosis of George Washington (1802)

John James Barralet, Apotheosis of George Washington (1802). Stipple engraving, 24 x 18 1/2 in. Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York. Reproduced from Phoebe Lloyd Jacobs, "John James Barralet and the Apotheosis of George Washington," Winterthur Portfolio 12, 1977, 116. Barralet's engraving shows the late president assisted by Imoortality and Father Time on his ascent to Heaven.

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