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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 439843, member: 5833&quot;]That&#039;s my opinion too &amp; why I wanted to show them side by side.&nbsp; The majority of the cameos the Met owns are part of the Milton Weil collection, are hardstone, are fabulous.&nbsp; Mr. Weil must have bought this one out of patriotism &amp; because it added one more work signed by a known name.</p><p><br /></p><p>The image originated with Jean-Antoine Houdon&#039;s sculpture of Washington:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn03/images/wash_side.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t know which of many sources that show the head only were used by the cameists.&nbsp; Both cameos are &#039;sinistral&#039; facing viewer&#039;s left, medals that were struck seem mainly to be &#039;dextral&#039;, like this one by Pierre Simon Duvivier from 1790:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images3-cdn.auctionmobility.com/is3/auctionmobility-static/AZp5-1-11DHZ/3-510I3/ecc7df8c-5363-4dea-95be-d76797f9806a?width=720&amp;height=720&amp;resizeinbox=true&amp;backgroundcolor=eeeeee" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cameo cutters may have come across the image more by way of plaster impressions of the medal or copying other cameos that were based on an impression.&nbsp; Italian gem engravers had to be businessmen too - some of them owned stores in addition to making their own work - &amp; GW was probably a hit with American tourists.</p><p><br /></p><p>This came in while I was writing,</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this thread had any influence, but applaud your doing some research first &amp; in being open to a cameo that is not another pretty lady, in a price bracket you may not have considered before.&nbsp; As kyra said:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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