Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . WASUINCroN AND LAFAVliTTli. 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 lady, the wife of Peter J. Yon Berckel, ofPotterdam, the first embassador from Holland to the UnitedStates, was a great admirer of the cliaracter of Washington, andpainted an allegorical picture in testimony of her reverence forthe Liberator of his country. It was executed upon
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . WASUINCroN AND LAFAVliTTli. 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 lady, the wife of Peter J. Yon Berckel, ofPotterdam, the first embassador from Holland to the UnitedStates, was a great admirer of the cliaracter 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. The design, intending to becomplimentary to Washington, was well conceived. Upon thetop of a short, fluted colunm, was a bust of Washington, crowned 180 MOUNT V E R N 0 N. \r*snT^r,TOX s destiny. with a military and civic wreatli. This stood near the entranceto a cave where the Parcse or Fates—Clotho the Spinster, Lach-esis the Allotter, and Atropos tlie Uiichangeable—were seen,busy with the destinies of the patriot. Clotho was sitting withher distafi, spinning the thread of his life, and Lachesis wasreceiving it. Atropos was just stepping forward with openshears to cut it, when Innnortality, represented as a beautifulyouth, seized the precious thread, and gave it to Fame, awinged female, with a trumpet, in the skies, who bore it onto future ages. Tlie latter thouglit was beautifully expressed AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 187 by Thomas Moore, many years later, when lie thus sang of apoets immortality: Even so, though thy memory should now die away,Twill be caught up again in some happier the hearts and the voices of Erin the answering Future, thy name and thy song. This picture was presented to Washington by Mr. Von Berck-el, with t
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