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fac simile of the original - which original will always be regarded with interest as a precious Study from the life, and a beautiful work of art.

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Besides the magnificent Picture in the Faneuil Hall, Mr Stewart made several Whole length Compositions of Washington- The likeness always founded on his 2nd Portrait; but the one most known is that which was painted for the Marquis of Lansdowne, for which Washington, at the request of Mrs Bingham, in April 1796 gave the artist one retouching sitting - Thus making it in a degree Stuart's third Portrait.  This this picture, which I saw in London in 1834, in the possession of Mrs Williams was engraved by Heath; but the head was not satisfactory to Mr Stuart, and inferior to one engraved by Nutter, for Lovater's Physiognomy.

A very coarse engraving from Nutter's Print was published on a number of English Water Pitchers, & brought into notoriety by Mr Dorsey, the architect of the Pennsylvania Academy of fine Art. After several unsuccessful attempts to break the pitcher