Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 to Buchan, the Earl of Erskine re: a portrait of President George Washington by Trumbull and American neutrality.

GLC02794.036

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GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
1794/02/23
Author/Creator
Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
Title
to Buchan, the Earl of Erskine re: a portrait of President George Washington by Trumbull and American neutrality.
Place Written
Liverpool, England
Pagination
3 p. : docket : Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Buchan, the Earl of Erskine, an English liberal in Edinburgh, Scotland, writes: "I am much pleased to find that the Portrait of our great good Washington meets your Lordship's approbation [. . . .] There is now with Mr. [Benjamin] West in London (lately sent over) a full length painting of the Rendering by Trumbull, which is perhaps the best ever taken of him-- and an engraving is to be made from it." "I find a pretty general apprehension occasion in this Country by the military preparations making in the U.S. as tending of a rupture with this Kingdom; but sure I am that the only object of such preparations is to enable the U.S. to preserve with dignity & energy that System of neutrality which they have adopted." A draft was kept by Lear.

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