Mount Vernon: The Story of an American Icon Museum Exhibit Collection

Images of George Washington abound but the most faithful likeness remains a terra cotta bust created by Jean Antoine Houdon. The French sculptor vi...

The most iconic likeness of George Washington is the bust created by Jean Antoine Houdon. The French sculptor visited Mount Vernon in October 1785 ...

Images of George Washington abound but the most faithful likeness remains a terra cotta bust created by Jean Antoine Houdon. The French sculptor vi...

Images of George Washington abound but the most faithful likeness remains a terra cotta bust created by Jean Antoine Houdon. The French sculptor vi...

Images of George Washington abound but the most faithful likeness remains a terra cotta bust created by Jean Antoine Houdon. The French sculptor vi...

George Washington was well known for his punctuality - he used the 18th century's most accurate method of telling time: the sundial. Washington's b...

This is an exact reproduction of George Washington's most famous set of china, produced and decorated in Canton in 1784. It was brought to America ...

This is an exact reproduction of George Washington's most famous set of China, produced and decorated in Canton in 1784. It was brought to America ...

This is an exact reproduction of George Washington's most famous set of china, produced and decorated in Canton in 1784. It was brought to America ...

This is an exact reproduction of George Washington's most famous set of china, produced and decorated in Canton in 1784. It was brought to America ...

The most important piece of fire-fighting equipment from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries was a leather fire bucket. Standard-size buc...

This extravagant design was originally made in China, probably for export to the Portuguese and Brazilian markets. Of all the 18th century dinnerwa...

This extravagant design was originally made in China, probably for export to the Portuguese and Brazilian markets.   Of all the 18th century dinner...

This extravagant design was originally made in China, probably for export to the Portuguese and Brazilian markets.   Of all the 18th century dinner...

This 1780 portrait is based on Charles Wilson Peale’s 1779 commission from the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, and is one of at least 18...

This 1780 portrait is based on Charles Wilson Peale’s 1779 commission from the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, and is one of at least 18...

This luminous painting of the view to the Potomac from within Mount Vernon’s deteriorating piazza represents a key moment in Mount Vernon’s history...

Esteemed genre artist Eastman Johnson painted this image of Mount Vernon after his visit to the estate in 1857. The artist's vantage point at the n...

This luminous painting of the view to the Potomac from within Mount Vernon’s deteriorating piazza represents a key moment in Mount Vernon’s history...

In this imagined scene, the artist depicts Washington sitting at a tea table in the shade of his summer house, surrounded by friends and family wit...

In this imagined scene, the artist depicts Washington sitting at a tea table in the shade of his summer house, surrounded by friends and family wit...

The West Front of Mount Vernon, c. 1792 by Edward Savage No estate in United America is more pleasantly situated than this," wrote George Washingto...

The West Front of Mount Vernon, c. 1792 by Edward Savage No estate in United America is more pleasantly situated than this," wrote George Washingto...