General Washington
January 15, 1781
Medium
Hand-colored mezzotint; after second state
Dimensions
Plate: 23 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (60.3 × 40 cm) Sheet: 25 3/4 × 17 1/8 in. (65.4 × 43.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Accession Number
24.90.181
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Valentine Green|John Trumbull|Valentine Green|George Washington · 1739–1813
**Valentine Green (1739–1813)** was a leading British mezzotint engraver and print publisher whose work helped elevate the medium’s status in 18th-century Britain. Born on 3 October 1739 in Salford Priors near Evesham, Warwickshire, he initially trained for the law but abandoned it after two years in a solicitor’s office. He then studied line engraving under Robert Hancock in Worcester before movi...