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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Washington Assumes Command
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Washington Assumes Command

Artist Ralph Ludwig Boyer (American, 1879-1952)
Publisher Henry E. Carling
CultureAmerican
Date1932
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall, Plate: 10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Overall: 14 7/8 x 19 1/8 in. (37.8 x 48.6 cm)
InscribedLower right corner of paper: "JTA" in pencil. Paper watermarked "GW" within a circle lower right corner and Washington arms upper left corner of paper.
Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms
Object number55.28.105G
On View
Not on view
DescriptionEtching on laid paper. No. 8 of the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington.

Label TextRalph L. Boyer American (1879-1952) Washington Assumes Command, 1932 Etching 55.28.105 gExhibition History"First in the Hearts of His Countrymen: America Remembers George Washington 1732-1799," Chrysler Museum of Art, Nov. 23, 1999 - Summer 2001.