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McRae, John,
engraver.
13538
"Father, I cannot tell a lie: I cut the tree"
[graphic] /
Painted by G.G. White; Eng[raved by] John McRae.
[New York] :
[publisher not identified],
[1860]
1 print :
engraving ;
sheet 52 x 69 cm (20.25 x 27 in.)
Title from date.
Date based on the active dates of engraver.
Genre scene of the fictitious moment when the young George Washington confesses to his father, Augustine, a plantation owner, that he cut a cherry tree on their Virginia plantation. Depicts Washington's father holding his son's hand and comforting him. George looks up at his father and points his left hand towards the cut tree in the right. On the ground is an ax and an upturned hat. In the background, an enslaved African American man plows the pasture with a team of oxen, and an enslaved African American man and woman couple stands near the gate of a cottage, probably their dwelling.
Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Washington, Augustine,
approximately 1694-1743
Portraits.
Washington, George,
1732-1799
Childhood and youth.
Washington, George,
1732-1799
Portraits.
African American couples
Virginia.
African American men
Virginia.
African American women
Virginia.
Cherry trees
Virginia.
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Dwellings
Virginia.
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Honesty.
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Plantations
Virginia.
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Plowing
Virginia.
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Enslaved persons
Virginia.
lctgm
Woodcutting
Virginia.
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Engravings
1850-1860.
gmgpc
Genre prints
1850-1860.
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Enslaved men
Virginia.
local
Enslaved people
Structures
Virginia.
local
Enslaved women
Virginia.
local
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African American History
White, George G.
(George Gorgas),
-1898,
artist.
Imprint
N.Y. New York.
1860.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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N.Y. New York.
1860.
Imprint