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6 BICENTEN N IAL POSTAGE STAMPS Twelve George Washington portraits in Stamp series issued to commemorate anniversary of First President's Birth-plated on sale in the National Capitol on january 1, and throughout the rest of the nation the following day--will be used all year. These stamps show Washington as he was painted at different times in his life by different artists. The one-half cent stamp is dark brown in color, bearing the likeness of Washington painted by Charles Wilson Peale, the original of which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The one-cent stamp, printed in green, is a reproduction of the profile bust by Houdon made in 1785 and now among the treasures at Mount Vernon. The one and one-half cent stamp is light brown featuring another Peale portrait of Washington known as the Virginia Colonel, now in possession of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia. The stamp with which the public will become most familiar, because of its use on most mail, is the two-cent, bearing the likeness of George Washington already best known, the Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum portrait done at Germantown in 1796. Already this portrait has become generally known among Americans because of its use on the one dollar bill. The color of the three cent stamp is purple and it bears a reproduction of the Peale portrait painted at Valley Forge in 1777 showing Washington in the uniform of a general with a cocked hat. Another Peale portrait done the same year, known as the Rhineback portrait, appears on the four-cent stamp in warm brown. The Five cent stamp in blue features the Washington portrait now owned by the New York Historical Society. The six cent stamp in orange shows the portrait painted by Trumbull in 1792. The head and bust of the Trumbull portrait done in 1780 appears on the seven cent stamp in black, while the eight cent of olive green is a reproduction of the crayon drawing made from life by Charles B. J. F. Saint- Memin. The nine-cent stamp is pink showing a reproduction of the pastel portrait painted from life by W. Williams in 1794, while the last of the series, the ten-cent stamp is orange in color and the portrait is taken from the Gilbert-Stuart painting made in 1795, known as the Vaughan portrait.
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