WASHINGTON, GEORGE | Document signed ("Go: Washington") as President of the Society of the Cincinnati, being an unaccomplished membership certificate

WASHINGTON, GEORGE

Document signed ("Go: Washington") as President of the Society of the Cincinnati, being an unaccomplished membership certificate

Engraved broadside on vellum (14 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.; 368 x 504 mm), unaccomplished, [Philadelphia, 1784], countersigned by the Secretary of the Society ("HKnox"), engraved vignettes by Auguste L. Belle after Jean-Jacques Andre LeVeau depicting America in knight's armor trampling upon the British standard and the American eagle casting the British lion and Britannia out to sea with thunderbolts, the vignettes incorporating depictions of both sides of the medal of the Order of the Cincinnati within roundels; a very little bit of creasing and wrinkling. Framed, and glazed.