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Washington we could collect, & among them Houdon's bust, which I placed in such a selected light, as to bring out the most characteristic parts, & to throw into shadow those which I thought were the least expressive. Judge Bushrod Washington, among the members who were invited to the examination, on glancing at it as he entered the room, exclaimed that he never before had seen so much of likeness in it, although he possessed a bust from the hands of Houdon himself. 

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The result of this examination for Mr Delaphine, was my recommendation that he should have engraved for his work the profile of Houdons bust, as the more-authentic likeness. This advice he took, but it was inaccurately executed. - I have endeavored in a collossal monochrome to be more correct in delineating it -

No 4 Houdon's Bust

A profile of unsurpassed benignity & grandeur of character. This was Washington in his retirement at Mount Vernon, two years after the declaration of Peace - a countenance radiant with that sublime spirit, which afterwards dictated the sacred