A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . 306 MALBONES MINIATURE. sprung from a good English family, who was founder of the Quarantinesystem and first Health Officer of the port of New York. There is abeautiful miniature of this William Seton, painted in 1796, when he wasabout twenty-eight years of age. For a description of the face, referencemay be made to The House of the Seven Gables, where Hawthorne describesthe miniature of Clifford Pyncheon. This was written after Hawthor
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . 306 MALBONES MINIATURE. sprung from a good English family, who was founder of the Quarantinesystem and first Health Officer of the port of New York. There is abeautiful miniature of this William Seton, painted in 1796, when he wasabout twenty-eight years of age. For a description of the face, referencemay be made to The House of the Seven Gables, where Hawthorne describesthe miniature of Clifford Pyncheon. This was written after Hawthornehad visited the Seton house, where the miniature, which he greatly admired,was shown to him, and suggested the fashion of Pyncheon. This interest-ing work of art bears the following inscription on a metal plate affixed tothe inner side of the case : This miniature, believed to have been paintedby Malbone in 1796, is a portrait of William Seton, Esquire, Representativeof the Setons of Parbroath, eldest son of William Seton of New York andof Rebecca, daughter of Richard Curzon, Esquire, of Baltimore, of theCurzons of Waterperry in Oxfordshire, extinct baronets, who was descend
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