Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . ^^***^*^^tLXZim>Mi»MO)VMm!iiil^ WASHI>fGTOX S ADDRESS CARD. The address card was coarsely engraved on copper, and wasused by Washington during the war. While he was Presi- AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 349 dent, lie had a neat invitation-to-dinner card en<^raved in writ-ing. The original phite of the hdter is in the possession of agentleman in Philadelphia. Some of the diagrams from Washingtons pen, alluded to,have been delineated upon other pages of this work. The en-gravings that belonged to him hang in
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . ^^***^*^^tLXZim>Mi»MO)VMm!iiil^ WASHI>fGTOX S ADDRESS CARD. The address card was coarsely engraved on copper, and wasused by Washington during the war. While he was Presi- AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 349 dent, lie had a neat invitation-to-dinner card en<^raved in writ-ing. The original phite of the hdter is in the possession of agentleman in Philadelphia. Some of the diagrams from Washingtons pen, alluded to,have been delineated upon other pages of this work. The en-gravings that belonged to him hang in the great passage andtwo adjoining parlors. These are, Andromache bewailingthe Death of Hector; The Death of Montgomery; The Deathof Warren ; two Hunting Scenes ; four Landscapes; The De-fence of Gibraltar, four Views ; Descent from the Cross ; and aSt. Agnes. These are all more or less injured by some tiny de-stroyers, that are daily making the high lights still stronger, sothat all the pictures now appear snowy. If their destructiveprogress shall not be speedily arrested, those r
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