you would have noticed in the face is recognizably the water by gilbert stuart and best-known and the partial of the national portrait gallery which would come into the 19th century to dominate all other faces of washington. i am looking forward to mile's talk about stuart. showing the portrait obtained currency before washington's death. a recently arrived in which engraver engraved the head at least three times in 1798. here are some examples. it became quite popular that year and appeared in multiple framing prints and illustrations. a new york physician named charles buxton, for example, designed an ambitious full length image of washington engraved in 1798. buxton's design was an amalgam of patriotic symbols referring to washington's achievements and his role in forging a new nation. the figure stand on a pedestal between obelisks. there is a pot of incense represented a pure heart. the other elements of the scheme would have been familiar to his audience. the background scene introducing the new note of bowling green, new york. depicting an empty pedestal where a statue of georg

the gilbert stuart -- >> the gilbert stuart portrait.d so, she knew exactly what she was doing. and as i said before, i think writing about it, she knew what her place in history was going to be. >> catherine allgor, are you right about the fact that even this was symbolic because it was a copy of a painting, but she understood that the british couldn't be seen burning -- katherine: exactly. yes. and, in fact, when you talk about -- you're trying to -- as a historian, trying to find, well, was she really as symbolic as we say? sometimes it's very instructive to look at their enemies. so admiral cockburn framed all of his threats toward washington as mrs. madison. he was going to come and dine at mrs. madison's table. he was going to make his bow at her drawing room. he was going to parade her through the streets. he's not attacking james madison in rhetoric, he's attacking her. so we know she really was a kind of public figure. and, in fact, when he got to the white house and she wasn't there, he took things of hers including the cushion