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The gallery has just been passed in careful revision by the 
artist, and a full descriptive catalogue has received the last touches 
of his hand. In giving an account of the gallery, we shall there- 
fore adopt the language of the artist himself and copy his cata- 
logue, as we did that of Dr. Mantell on a very different subject, 
(see vol. xxi, p. 162,) for we ought not to condense the facts, 
and we cannot improve the style. 
The life of Col. Trumbull, having covered more than four fifths 
of acentury, of the most eventful import, and he having been 
himself, either an actor in, or a witness of many of its most thrill- 
ing events, we are happy to announce that he is just finishing a 
memoir of his own life, and of course, to a great extent of his own 
times, which will fully display, not only the history of the gallery, 
but of many of the events to which its pictures are devoted. 
Having been favored to become acquainted with the work in 
manuscript, we are gratified to say, that the pen of the author is 
not inferior to the pencil of the artist, and that the productions of 
both speak alike to the mind and the heart. 
Col. Trumbull’s writings are remarkable for perspicuity, con- 
densation, and elegant simplicity. His pictures, we presume not 
to criticise—artists will form and express, as they have already 
done, their own opinions; but we hazard nothing in predicting, 
that the Trumbull Gallery, and especially its historical pictures, 
will be appreciated, in a higher and higher degree, with the pro- 
gress of time. 
As long as patriotism and taste shall survive, this Gallery will be 
visited, more and more; and when, beneath its massy walls and 
glowing canvass, the artist himself shall find his last repose—his 
tomb, decorated with more than the beauty of sepulchral flowers, 
will show vivid tints of unfading imagery, proof 
summer’s drought or winter’s cold.* 
The Gallery will become a shrine, and its relics of the gone-by 
years will be held sacred, even amidst the din of war and the strife 
of civil commotion. 
Nor, while indigent merit, without restriction to sect, party, or 
destination, shall claim the boon which the artist has bequeathed 
forever, to youth, nobly struggling for education—will this holy 
Goi ee 
alike against the 
* His tomb, tenanted already by the remains of his nearest friend, is beneath 
the Gallery which will, one day, be his mausoleum—monumentum are perennius, 
