Details
Title Washington and his servant [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Date [1883]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 12 x 9 cm. (4.5 x 3.25 in)
Description Illustration included in Chapter II, "First Years of the Constitution." It shows President George Washington walking on a cobblestone sidewalk with his black manservant, who follows a few steps behind him. Image appears in the context of a discussion of Washington's taste for fashion and "courtly etiquette," and it relates to the following passage: "When he walked the streets his body-servant in livery followed him at respectful distance." Carrying a walking-stick, the well-dressed Washington wears breeches, a dark vest and waistcoat, and a bicorne, a type of hat commonly worn by intellectuals. His servant carries his dark-colored overcoat. The servant himself wears a lighter suit and a tricorne.
Is part of Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896. Building the nation. New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883.
Notes Engraving in Charles Coffin's Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War between the States (New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883), p. 37.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Portraits.
Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Employees.
African American domestics.
Genre Engravings -- 1880-1890.
Book illustrations -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1883 Cof 23709.O p 37
Accession number 23709.O