Description
<p>In the mid-1840s Nathaniel Currier, the American lithographer who became well known as half of the printing company Currier & Ives, produced this print of the Marquis de Lafayette visiting the tomb of George Washington. The print was created years after Lafayette’s visit as a visually attractive memento—the large, gated tomb depicted was not constructed until thirteen years after Lafayette was at the site. Lafayette is shown just as he appears in a portrait by the artist Ary Scheffer, dressed in a long brown jacket and holding a hat and walking stick.</p>
