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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Washington's Farewell to His Officers
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Washington's Farewell to His Officers

Artist Samuel Chamberlain (American, 1895-1975)
CultureAmerican
Date1932
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall, Plate: 6 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (15.5 x 21.8 cm)
Overall: 8 1/8 x 11 3/8 in. (20.6 x 29 cm)
Overall, Mat: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
InscribedSigned in pencil lower right below platemark: "Samuel Chamberlain" and lower left in pencil "Fourth State"; below platemark lower right corner of mat: "JTA". Paper watermarked with portion of a hand with cuff lower left center.
Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms
Object number55.28.105N
Not on view
DescriptionEtching on laid paper. No. 15 of the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington.

Label TextSamuel V. Chamberlain American (1895-1975) Washington's Farewell to His Officers, 1932 Etching 55.28.105 nExhibition History"First in the Hearts of His Countrymen: America Remembers George Washington 1732-1799," Chrysler Museum of Art, Nov. 23, 1999 - Summer 2001.