[Rarebooks] FS: 20 Original Folio Signed Etchings Celebrating George Washington including Childe Hassam, Robert Lawson, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

[HASSAM, Childe; HORTER, Earl; CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel; LEWIS... TWENTY 
MASTERPIECES IN ETCHING [GEORGE WASHINGTON]
The American Art Foundation (New York). A collection of twenty large 
folio (14-1/2" x 19-1/2") ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHINGS by twenty different 
artists, all on various aspects of the life of George Washington. 
Included are the following SIGNED etchings: Bowling on the Green by 
Childe Hassam; Braddock's Defeat by Earl Horter; Pohick Church by Ernest 
David Roth; Enroute to the First Continental Congress by Eugene Higgins; 
The British Driven From Boston, 1776 by Allen Lewis; The Midnight 
Retreat by Levon West; Valley Forge by George Wright; Stemming the 
Retreat at Monmouth by Kerr Eby; Fraunces Tavern, New York City, 1783 by 
Samuel Chamberlain; New York Welcomes a National Hero, 1789 by Robert 
Lawson; The Levee by Walter Tittle; Colonial Home Live by Arthur William 
Heintzelman; Conquering the Wilderness by Robert Nisbet; Fort Le Boeuf 
by Sears Gallagher; A Virginia Garden by William Auerbach-Levy; The 
First American Army by Ralph Boyer; The Surrender by F. Louis Mora; 
Preventing A Military Dictatorship by Albert Sterner; Farming at Mount 
Vernon by Louis Conrad Rosenberg; and The Constitutional Convention, 
1787 by John W. Winkler. Each etching is a SIGNED original inspected and 
approved by John Taylor Arms. Included is a folio four-page letterpress 
pamphlet printed in red and black giving biographical information about 
the artists as well as a six-page typed explanation of the plates. Heavy 
foxing to the margins of the Mora etching; very mild foxing to the 
margins of one or two others. Otherwise Fine in the original clamshell 
box. Scarce!                  $5000.00
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