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Painters,
To Francis Hopkinson
Mt. Vernon Mar 6 1785

Dear sir
"In for a penny in for a pound"-is an old adage-I am so hackneyed to the touches of a Painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, I sit like Patience on a Monument, while they deteriorate the lines of my face. It is a proof among many others, of what habit & custom can effect. At first I was as impatient at the request, and as restive under the operation, as a Colt is of the saddle; the next time. I submitted very reluctantly, but with less flowering, now no Dray, horse moves more readily to the hill, than I do to the paintless chair, it may therefore be easily conceived that I yielded a ready obedience to your request & the views of Mr Pine &c 
signed G Washington

[[stamp]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART [[/stamp]]

No5. Pine
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This Painting, which I signed, have made from a tracing of a photograph of the original, will give some idea of the portrait, in the possession of Mr Carson Brevoort of Bedford, Long Island. About the year ago, Mr Wright, at the request of Frank Hopkinson, painted a Small Head Washington, scarcely to be known as a likeness; though Copies of it gained him some reputation in London.