The painting shows George Washington as a gentleman farmer at Mount Vernon during the wheat harvest. He stands in colonial dress with a rake in the foreground beside a worker, while enslaved laborers and children gather sheaves and load wheat onto a horse-drawn wagon. A large tree frames the right side. Junius Brutus Stearns painted the scene in 1851 as an idealized view of Washington's plantation life, a subject that softened the reality of the enslaved workforce that made Mount Vernon's harvest possible.
Rounded corners; white border; color lithograph reproduction of a painting; no printed text on front.
No postmark and no stamp present. Divided-back chrome-era card (Dextone/Kodachrome process), glossy surface with white border. Dealer pencil mark "#59 1-" in lower right; printed card number 59040. No handwritten address or message.
Cite this card
Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1950, postcard, c. 1950. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/washington-as-a-farmer-at-mount-vernon-va-circa-1950. Accessed November 2, 2026.
