The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-10-29
The only TFue Portrait OF Wash-
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taJUST PUBLISHED,
T3Bsl WEIGHS MAGNIFICENT
PORTRAITOF WASHINGTON.
E4grayed (by pefmission) from SiusFi's
only original portrait, in the Athe-
-pheum, BosionE nov H3ia9h sgqgS N
This Isuberb picture, Engraved under
Ihe snperiniendeDce of THOMAS SUI
LIZ, ESQ, Tie eminent and highly gifted
artist, is tho only correct likeness 81
Washington ever published. Ii bas been
characterized as the greatest work of~l
ever produced in this coustry. AS 10 ils
fideliiy, I'VE refer to the letters Of Tie
adopted son Of Washington, GEORGE
.WASHiNGTONPARK CUSTIs, who
says 'Itis a. faithlul representation of
ille celebrated original" and TO CHIEF
JUSTICE TANEK Of the Supreme
Court of the United States, who says,
Gas work Of dr., lis excellence and
beauty must strike every one who sees
i; and i is no less happy in its likeness
to oihe Father of his couniry. Il was my
good foHune 10 have seen him in the days
ofmy boyhood, and hiswhole appearance
ls yet strongly impressed on my memory.
sIbe portrait you have issued appears 10
me TO be an exact likeness, representing
perfectly the expression as we'll as the
form and features Of the face" And
says SENATOR CASS, it is a lite like
representation Of the great original.
PRESIDENT FILLMORE says, "lhe
work appears 70 me 10 have been admira,
oly executed and emipently wothy of the
patronage. of the ,publicn Says MAR
CHANT the eminent, portrait painter,
and the pppillof S,uort,i"your print 10 my
mind is more remarkable than any other
!, have seen, for presenting tho ,ohole in
divlduality aof the original portrait, to-
gelher withibe nobleapd dignifed repose
Of aii ard manner, which all who ever
saw him considered a marked characters.
tic Of the ,illuStrious man It oommemo-
rates. stsg ,.,,
. sf
For The, great merits Of this picture ,De
ieould refer erery loper Of Washington
10 I've portrait itself, to be seen dtthe Office
Of fhis paper, and to the, letters Of Me fol- |
fowiag Artists, Statesmen, Jurists and
accompanying IL. 5i3
& ARTISTS Marchant and Elliott, Of
New York; gNeagle, RotbermeI, and
Limbdin,of Philadelphia; Chester Hard
ing, Of Boston; Charles Fraser, of Clar-
esion. S. C., and to the adopted son of
Washington, Hon. Geo, w. P. Gusts,
himself an artist, STATESMEN His
txcelleqcy Millard Fillmore, Major Gen.
Winfield Scott, Hon George M. Dallas,
ION William R. King, Hon. Daniel
Webster, Hor. Linn Boyd, Hon. Lewis
3ass, Hon. John P. Kennedy, Hon. R.
J. Winthrop, LID JURISTS.--H Hon.
toger B. Taney, Hon. John Duer, Hon.
Iohn Mclean, Hon. RUFUS Cboate. |
'CHOLARS--Charles Folsom, Esq.
ie well known Librarian of the Boston
who says, 81 would rather +
wn il than any painted copy have ever
sen;" E. P. BWbipple,i Richard Hill
reth, Hon. Edw. Everett, IL. D., Jared
parks, LII. d., William II. Prescott, {
T.. d. Washington Irving, Ralph w.
,merson, Esq, Prof T. G., Upham, J.
:. Headley, Fiiz Green Halleck, II. W. 4
.onefellow, VIM. Gilmore Simms; and
ROM EUROPE, Lord Talford, #. B.
Jacawley, Sir Archibald Alison, Lord
Iayor of London, &c. &c. &c. THE i
'REss, throughout the entire Union,
s of,his superb engraving. s.slsr3 -,, ~