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Handkerchief
1800-1800
Category
Textiles
Museum Object Number
2014.0044
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of John and Marjorie McGraw
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Object Number
2014.0044
Object Name
Handkerchief
Category
Textiles
Date
1800-1800
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Inscription: The Death of General Washington
Type: Inscription
Inscription: He united and adorned many excellent Characters, at once the Patriot and Politician; the Soldier & the Citizen; the Husbandman and the Hero; the Favourite of the Genius of Liberty; the Father of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; the Promoter of her extensive and BROTHERLY UNION; the Pillar of her CONSTITUTION; the PRESIDENT of her SENATE; and the GENERALISSIMO of her ARMIES.
Type: Inscription
Inscription: He was GREAT in the COUNCIL and in the FIELD.
Type: Inscription
Inscription: First in War, first in Peace, first in the hearts of AMERICANS, first in the Eyes of the World, he was unrivalled as a Stateman as a Soldier, as a Senator-and he is embalmed by the tears of AMERICA, entombed in the hearts of his Countrymen, admired by the enlightened of all Lands, immortalized by his own great actions and the regrets of Mankind.
Type: Inscription
Inscription: He Was GREAT in ARTS and in ARMS
Type: Inscription
Inscription: He possessed and displayed extraordinary abilities, exalted VIRTUES, and unexampled Self command and Self denial; moderate in Prosperity, undaunted amid Danger, unbroken by adversity, firm and unmoved amid the violence or reproach of Faction, unperverted by great and general applause.
Mark/Signature: No