. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE. also painted on copper, in medallion form, the profiles of Wash-ington and Lafayette, in miniature, within the same circumfer-ence, and presented the picture to Washington. It is now atArlington House. Another foreign ladj, the wife of Peter J. Yon Berckel, ofEotterdam, the first embassador from Holland to the UnitedStates, was a great admirer of the character of Washington, andpainted an allegorical picture in testimony of her reverence forthe Liberator of his c
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE. also painted on copper, in medallion form, the profiles of Wash-ington and Lafayette, in miniature, within the same circumfer-ence, and presented the picture to Washington. It is now atArlington House. Another foreign ladj, the wife of Peter J. Yon Berckel, ofEotterdam, the first embassador from Holland to the UnitedStates, was a great admirer of the character of Washington, andpainted an allegorical picture in testimony of her reverence forthe Liberator of his country. It was executed upon copper,eighteen by twenty inches in size. Tlie design, intending to becomplimentary to Washington, was well conceived. Upon thetop of a short, fluted column, was a bust of Washington, crowned 200 MOUNT VERNON. ■WASHINGTON S DESTINY. with a militarj and civic wreath. This stood near the entranceto a cave where the Parcse or Fates—Clotho the Spinster, Lach-esis the AUotter, and Atropos the Unchangeable—were seen,husj with the destinies of the patriot. Clotho was sitting withher distaff, spinning the thread of his life, and Lachesis wasreceiving it. Atropos was just stepping forward with openshears to cut it, when Immortalitj, represented as a beautifulyouth, seized the precious thread, and gave it to Fame, awinged female, with a trumpet, in tlie skies, who bore it onto future ages. The latter tliought was beautifully expressed AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 201 by Thomas Moore, many years later, when he thus sang of apoets immortality: Even so, though thy memory should now die away,Twill be caught up again in some happier day,And the hearts and the voices of Erin the answering Future, thy name and thy song. This picture was presented to Washington by Mr. Yon Berck-el, with tlie f
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