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In the year 1792, Signor Cerachi, an Italian Sculptor of some reputation, modelled a Bustof Washington form the life, and repeated it of Colossal size, a marble vopy was brought to this Country by Richard W. Meade, & brought by Congress for $4000; but it was destroyed by fire when the Congress Library was burnt... This Bust is more like Caerachi himself than like Washington; yet it is not without some points of merit,  borrowed from the life. I have seen in the museum at Napes an antique Bust of Augustus Caesar, which would pass for a better likeness of Washington. Cerachi finally distinguished himself by a design to assassinate, Bonaparte while sitting to him for a Bust; and instead of finishing it lost his own head by the guillotine (sic), Napoleon consequently for many years afterwards refused to sit for his Portait.

Four weeks in Sculpture, devoted to the memory of Washington, being the first public employment of that Art in the United States deserve especial notice. The Statue in the Capitol at Richmond, in Continental costume by Houdon- The Statue at Raleigh, No. Carolina, in Roman Costume by Canova, the head from Cerachi's Bust- The Statue in the State House, Boston, by Chantry in Civic Costume, the head from Houdan's Bust- and the Colossal figure by Grenough, at Washington, in Roman Costume the head from Houdon's Bust.

Other sculptures have since neen devoted to the same object- Brown's Equestrian Bronze at New York. and Crawford's Equiestrian Bonze at Richmond, pinting to the West, of which their Poet Thompson thus speaks

"Oh 'tis a noble sight:
The fiery steed, just checked that paws the ground
As if impatient at the Clarion sound:
But, sits our Matchless one serena,
And points forever to the golden path
of Emprie and the sun"

Magnificent as this costly monument is, erected by the patriotic munificence of Virginia, & rendered more interesting by the statues of Patrick Henry & Jefferson, which adorn its tributary base, - the likeness I am sorry to say is n not a good Copy from Houdon's Bust. The profile at the right side is tolerably like, but the front view is scarcely recognizable. 

Bright among the monuments is Brass & marble, whichare silently rising to the memory of Washington, w e behold with pride & pleasure, the figure of the orator - Everett - devoting his splendid talents, by an unrivalled act of patriotism, to secure the preservation of the Sanctur of Mount Vernon, as I have, enraptured listened to his classic eloquence, warmed by the divine spirit of his subject, I have regarded him as the speaking - the living - monument of Washington. 

Mr. Pine, a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, came to this country in 1785, with several Historical Paintings, copied from Reynolds. He was not successful as a Portrait Painter, and though patronized by the great Banker, Robert Morris, did not remain long, and died in returning to England. A Letter from Washington to Francis Hopkinson, expresses, as Irving says, in a playful style the fact of his sitting to Mr. Pine, and his experience with Portrait Painters.