Collection Highlights
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Date:
1805
Object Number:
1867.306
Medium:
Oil on linen
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"The Love of Truth Mark the Boy"
Object Number:
1941.117
Date:
ca. 1806
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. ( 32.4 x 29.2 cm )
Marks:
printed: across top: "THE LOVE OF TRUTH/ MARK THE BOY"
printed: below scene: "At six years old George, full of boyish tricks,/ Would often please himself by chopping sticks;/ ... / Afterwards the celebrated WASHINGTON."
stamped: bottom right corner: "IS
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with a scene depicting the folktale of George Washington and the cherry tree with an inscribed banner above and the folktale in three columns below; printed in blue on a white ground; decorative border.
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was originally printed as a companion to "The Effect of Principle, Behold the Man" (1941.104).
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1979), 63.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
