[WASHINGTON, George.] Stuttgarter Bilderbogen. Georg Washington 1ter President der vereinigten Staaten von Nord America. George Washington the first President of the United States of America … No. 46.

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The Life and Death of ‘Georg’ Washington [WASHINGTON, George.] Stuttgarter Bilderbogen. Georg Washington 1ter President der vereinigten Staaten von Nord America. George Washington the first President of the United States of America … No. 46. Stuttgart. Fried [ rich ] G [ ustav ] Schulz . [Not after 1853.] Lithographic broadside (420 x 320 mm), mounted on old card (442 x 352 mm); partly hand-coloured; minute rust-mark at foot, else very well preserved. An extremely rare Stuttgart-printed broadside depicting scenes from the life of George Washington, with text in German and English, produced as part of a series of Bilderbogen on notable figures by the prolific publisher Friedrich Schulz, prominently featuring depictions of people of colour and highlighting his role as the only Founding Father to emancipate all of the enslaved people he owned in his will. Schulz, a lithographer, stationer, and producer of cartes de visite who had exhibited at the Erste allgemeine deutsche Industrieausstellung (General German Industrial Exhibition) in Munich in 1854, published several of these Bilderbogen, or picture sheets, frequently brightly coloured and ‘showing multiple images on the same sheet of paper to portray a fairytale or historical event in narrative frames with a short text. Among the common topics and genres are religious, military battle, and sentimental scenes; portraits and caricatures; and landscapes and city views’ (Library of Congress, online ). Schulz seems to have specialis

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