Title: The joke's on George
Description: Briefly surveys the life of the early American portrait painter and describes an incident in which George Washington, visiting his natural history museum, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase.
Subjects: Fiction, Artists, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile literature, Children's fiction, Washington, george, 1732-1799, fiction, Artists, fiction, Museums, fiction
People: Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), George Washington (1732-1799)