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The President's House

Artist
Rufus Porter
Date of Work
ca. 1824
Medium
watercolor
Type
Painting
Credit
White House Collection/White House Historical Association
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The President's House

This watercolor painting by Rufus Porter is of the White House with the sun rising behind it. Porter was an American painter and inventor who went on to found the magazine "Scientific American" in 1845.