Recollections and private memoirs of Washington
A memoir of George Washington by his adopted grandson George Washington Parke Custis, published in New York by Derby & Jackson in 1860 for a general reading public. Its two steel-engraved portrait plates show Washington in youth: one a seated-style half-length of a woman in a dark gown with lace cuffs, the other a young man in a tricorn hat and hunting coat holding a long rifle, both with a handwritten signature beneath, offering a designer restrained period portraiture with dark tonal shading and plain oval-free rectangular framing.
