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by Savage for Cambridge College by Dunlap at Rocky-hill- Gulager at Portsmouth - Madame Brehen - Wright of Philadelphia Ramage Robertson of New York, and by Birch in enamel, from Stuart.
It is a matter of pride with americans to value everything that purposes to be a likeness of Washington, from the chance Pencil sketches up to every [[strikethrough]] thing [/strikethrough]] painted study from the life, each one rendered precious by some touches perhaps borrowed from the living original.

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

Seventy years ago there was no engraver of portraits in America but my Father himself executed, in mezzo-tinto, several prints of Washington, a great number a variety have been engraved in Europe, and since, in America, Mr John B Moreau of N. York possesses more than one hundred engravings by different artists, intended as a likeness of Washington as an evidence of his popularity in Italy the first number of a Biography of Great Men, published at Rome in 1830, when I was there, was a life of Washington with his Portrait, as the "Liberation of America".