The historic drawing is part of an auction of books and manuscripts on Sept.10 and is estimated to achieve between US$500,000 and US$800,000. Washington cherished the drawing because it was gifted ...

A detail of Étienne-Louis-Denis Cathala’s The Destruction of the Bastille, 1789. The ink drawing, gifted to George Washington by Marquis de Lafayette, will be on the auction block in September ...

Collectibles A Historic Drawing Once Owned by George Washington Goes to Auction. Gifted to Washington by Lafayette, the work depicting Bastille is expected to fetch as much as $800,000.

In August, the Museum of the American Revolution will display 'The Destruction of the Bastille,' an ink and wash drawing gifted to George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1790. The ...

An ink-wash drawing owned and cherished by President George Washington will hit an auction block in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The piece was gifted to Washington by Marquis de Lafayette.

One of George Washington’s prized possessions was an ink-wash drawing of the Bastille, the Parisian prison stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789. He mounted it in the entryway of his Mount ...