Title: Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington, Columbia's Great and Successful Son: Honored Be His Name.
Artist: Benjamin O. Tyler (1789-1855)
Copper plate engraving, 1817.
Published by Benjamin O. Tyler, New York.
Paper size 17 3/4 x 22 3/8" (44.9 x 56.8 cm.).

Memorial calligraphic copper engraving designed, written and published by Benjamin O. Tyler, professor of penmanship, New York, 1817. Engraved by Peter Maverick, Newark. With stipple oval portrait of Washington in center of elegiac poem, angels and masonic symbols.

#796 in "Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington" by Charles H. Hart & #2232 in "American Engravers on Copper & Stone" by David McNeeley Stauffer.

Benjamin Owen Tyler was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Vermont. He was taught penmanship and stenography at a young age and later used those talents to teach the cadets at the West Point Military Academy. Tyler also produced engravings of important American figures, such as George Washington, and facsimiles of letters and important documents. He is perhaps most famous for creating the "first correct copy" of the Declaration of Independence after the original was nearly destroyed in the fires set by the British during the War of 1812. The copy was endorsed by Secretary of State Richard Rush, son of one of the original signers, Benjamin Rush.

Condition: Fair condition, various repaired tears and small areas of paper fill. Professionally restored. Backed on rice paper.