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69. Ebenezer Martin of Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, attributed to Henry Inman 
(1801-1846) ; from Miss Alice L. Wood, Blowing Rock, N. C. 
LOANS ACCEPTED 
Three Nymphenburg figurines were lent by Miss Cornelia Morrison, 
Newton, N. C., on February 7, 1949. 
One miniature, water color on ivory, Portrait of Elsie Clough 
Street, by Gerald S. Haywood, was lent by Mrs. James Walter 
Rickey on February 15, 1949. 
One oil painting, Portrait of Sr. Benito Juarez, by Tom Lea, was 
lent by the State Department on February 18, 1949. 
Two oil paintings, Portrait of the Hon. Grizel Ross, by William 
Hogarth, and Portrait of Gen. Sir Charles Ross, by George Romney, 
and one miniature, water color on ivory, Portrait of the 8th Baronet 
Sir Charles Ross, by E. C. Thomson, were lent by Lady Ross of 
Balnagown Castle, Ross-shire, Scotland, on April 4, 1949. 
WITHDRAWALS BY OWNERS 
A bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 
lent by Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1912, was withdrawn August 
24, 1948, at the request of Homer Saint-Gaudens. 
Two oil paintings, Shoshone Falls, Idaho, and Spectres of the 
North, by Thomas Moran, lent by Miss Ruth B. Moran in 1923, were 
withdrawn October 6, 1948, by the executor of Miss Moran’s estate. 
An oil painting, The Nativity, by an unknown artist, lent by St. 
Paul’s Church in 1945, was withdrawn February 9, 1949, by the owner. 
Nine miniatures painted by Mrs. E. D. Sparrow when she was 
Mary Hall, lent by the artist in 1929, were withdrawn April 25, 1949. 
LOANS TO OTHER MUSEUMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 
The original design for the painting in the Capito] Building, West- 
ward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, by Emanuel Leutze, was 
lent to the Akron Art Institute August 17, 1948, to be included in the 
Freedom Train Exhibition at Akron, Ohio. (Returned October §, 
1948.) 
An oil painting, Portrait of Admiral William Snowden Sims, by 
Irving Wiles, was lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an 
exhibition held in conjunction with the United States Navy, entitled 
“Your Navy, Its Contribution to America from Colonial Days to 
World Leadership,” held from October 25 through December 5, 1948. 
(Returned January 13, 1949.) 
An oil painting, Sunset, Navarro Ridge, California Coast, by Ralph 
Blakelock, was lent to The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., for an 
exhibition “The Coast and the Sea, A Survey of American Marine 
