Washington reviewing the troops at Fort Cumberland before departing for western Pennsylvania to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. Attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer, 1795.

Roger Griswold beating Matthew Lyon with his cane. Lyon defends himself with fireplace tongs. The print was made in Philadelphia in 1798.

This cartoon captures American outrage over the XYZ Affair. Here, the French agent, his five heads representing the French Directory, demands a bribe from the American delegation.

George Washington's extraordinary place in Americans' hearts is reflected in this engraving made shortly after his death—the Apotheosis of Washington, by David Edwin after Rembrandt Peale, c. 1800.

This fresco painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1865 in the Capitol dome, reflects the century's continuing deification of George Washington.