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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. XXIII, 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 a century, 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 alike against the 

 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 



* His tomb, tenanted already by the remains of his nearest friend, is beneath 

 the Gallery which will, one day, be his mausoleum — monumentum mre perennius. 



