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Portraits of the first president were crucial to the project of nation-building and contributed to an emerging image bank of national identity. Princeton University played an early and ongoing role in the creation and circulation of these images, commissioning in 1783 Peale’s large-scale historical portrait <i>George Washington at the Battle of Princeton</i>, on view in the galleries of American art. The University continued to collect more than twenty-five additional representations of Washington in such diverse media as prints, medals, and ceramics. This painting descended through the family of its donor before it was given to the Princeton University Art Museum in the late twentieth century.\n","remarks":"ORI-PP_06_WLA.pdf - Day 1 installation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Possibly commissioned by James Latimer (1719 -1807); possibly inherited by George Latimer (1750-1825). Acquired by Samuel Small and his brother George Latimer Small (1921-2002), by 1978; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum by George Latimer Small, 1978.","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":206711,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2018_43736","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"John B. Boles, ed., <EM>Maryland heritage: five Baltimore institutions celebrate the American Bicentennial: The Walters Art Gallery, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Historical Society, the Peale Museum. Maryland Academy of Science</EM>, (Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 1976). ","citation":"John B. Boles, ed., <EM>Maryland heritage: five Baltimore institutions celebrate the American Bicentennial: The Walters Art Gallery, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Historical Society, the Peale Museum. 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