President Washington - Picturing Early America

President
Washington
George
Washington
at
Princeton,
1779
Charles
Wilson
Peale
The
Lansdowne
Portrait,
1796
Gilbert
Stuart
George
Washington,
1791
Jean‐Antoine
Houdon
George
Washington,
1840
Horatio
Greenough
Parson
Weems’
Fable,
1939
Grant
Wood
“Hail
Columbia”
•  Philip
Phile
composed
“The
President’s
March”
in
1793
•  in
1798,
Joseph
Hopkinson
set
patriotic
words
to
the
march
•  Hopkinson,
a
signer
of
the
Declaration,
had
been
composing
since
the
1760s