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Thomas Cheesman After John Trumbull ”General Washington” Engraving - Engraved by Thomas Cheesman.  Original Painting by John Trumbull Esq. ”George Washington Before the Battle of Trenton” (ca. 1792-94).  Print published in 1796.    Image: 28 3/4” x 18 1/2”  Frame: 32” x 22”    Condition: Toning and staining to the print. Marks and loss of gilt to the frame. See images for details.    Artist Bio: Thomas Cheesman (1760–1834) was a British reproductive engraver and a pupil of Francesco Bartolozzi, the Italian engraver who was the master of the stipple manner in Britain. His Washington plate was published in 1796 by A. C. de Poggi in London, engraved after John Trumbull's Washington at Trenton and produced under Trumbull's own supervision — the historian Justin Winsor called it the best engraving of Trumbull's paintings, and it became the model for later engravings of the subject. Note that the well-known Washington after Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait is a different plate, by James Heath.