The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 2, January 14, 2007, Article 13

DUNSMORE FRAUNCES TAVERN PAINTING: WASHINGTON INSPECTING FIRST SILVER COINS

Through a web search I discovered that the John Ward Dunsmore
Collection at the Fraunces Tavern Museum in New York City consists
of forty-five paintings donated by the artist.  The paintings depict
key events in early U.S. history.  The collection includes a U.S.
Mint-related painting titled "Washington Inspecting First Silver
Coins."  This does NOT depict the same scene as Dunsmore's "Inspecting
the First Coinage".  In it there are five male figures, with Washington
seated at a desk viewing coins and the others standing watching.

To view "Washington Inspecting First Silver Coins," see
cons_washington_inspecting.html

The museum's web site notes that "Dunsmore was a late 19th/early 20th-
century painter best known for his realistic and historically accurate
paintings. Dunsmore, the first Director of the Detroit Museum of Art
and a member of the Sons of the Revolution, donated the majority of
the collection directly to the Museum."

Fraunces Tavern is Manhattan's oldest surviving building.  On Pearl
Street in the Financial District, it was built in 1719 as an elegant
residence for the merchant Stephan Delancey.  Later it became a tavern
run by Samuel Fraunces and was noted as a gathering place for patriots
during the Revolutionary War.  The Sons of Liberty held meetings there
before the British occupation of the city and in 1783 Washington said
farewell to his Continental army officers in the tavern.

For more information on the Fraunces Tavern Museum, see:
frauncestavernmuseum.org/

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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