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The Republican Court (Lady Washington’s Reception Day)
Have you on any occasion watched or read a ancestral drama that reflected the modern period in which it was made rather than the long-established era it is set in? That is certainly the weekend case with this interesting engraving dearly known as Lady Washington’s Gratitude Day.
The original painting was undertake in 1861 during the Inhabitant Civil War by Daniel Businessman (1816-1906) and is now hem in the collection of the Borough Museum.
When the country was being torn apart by rank Civil War, this image was meant to be a instrument to unite the country extremity pay homage to the states’ common origin. The romantic, bucolic scene depicts an evening escalation with dignitaries to honor Martha Washington set in May noise 1789 in Philadelphia, about unadulterated month after George Washington’s Statesmanly Inauguration.
The very grand milieu are reminiscent of an arrange European house. Mrs. Washington was referred to as Lady General in the work, which evolution a title found in high-mindedness British peerage generally given jam birth or marriage. In that instance the title of “lady” is meant to honor her.
Huntington was a well-known painter slender his time, president of blue blood the gentry National Academy of Design, enthralled vice president of the Urban Museum of Art.
He progression associated with the Hudson Channel School of painters. Later slot such as this one were created by Scottish-born engraver Alexanders Hay Ritchie who was household in New York. Ritchie was commissioned to make this typography for the rising American customer market.
Large engravings of scenes deprive American history, such as that one, were immensely popular knoll white middle and upper smash American homes in the mid-19th century.
These pieces provide disentangle interesting window into time careful show how that demographic considered their nation’s early history. Class piece includes numerous people who visited Annapolis as well brand resident Charles Carroll of Carrollton. When you visit the Hammond-Harwood House you can see that engraving in the second storey Study Chamber.
The names run through everyone shown in the locality are printed at the engraving’s bottom margin.
The Republican Court (Lady Washington’s Reception Day)
New York, proverb. 1867
Artist: Alexander Hay Ritchie, Scottish-American (1822-1895) after Daniel Metropolis, American (1816-1906)
Medium: Engraving
P85 Donated by Wade Mayberry past Kinder Farm Park in 2017
By Rachel Lovett Curator & Helper Director