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General Gates has advanced a few steps from the entrance, to 

 meet his prisoner, who, with General PhiUips, has dismounted, 

 and is in the act of offering his sword, which General Gates de- 

 clines to receive, and invites them to enter, and partake of re- 

 freshments. A number of the principal officers of the American 

 army are assembled near their general. 



The confluence of Fish Creek and the North River, where the 

 British left their arms, is shown in the distance, near the head of 

 Col. Scammell ; the troops are indistinctly seen crossing the creek 

 and the meadows, under the direction of Colonel (since Gover- 

 nor) Lewis, then quarter-master general, and advancing towards 

 .the fore-ground : they disappear behind the wood, which serves 

 to relieve the three principal figures ; and again appear, (gren- 

 adiers, without arms or accoutrements,) under the left arm of 

 General Gates. Officers on horseback, American, British, and 

 German, precede the head of the column, and form an interesting 

 cavalcade, following the two dismounted generals, and connect- 

 ing the different parts of the picture. 



No. 26. — Five Heads. Oil Miniatures. 



Brigadier General Smallwood. 



Major Haskell. 



Colonel Morgan, of the Rifle Corps. 



Jodge Egbert Benson, in Congress, 1791. 



Major General Philip Schuyler. 



No. 27. — The Death of Paulus Emilius, at the battle of 

 Cannae, arranged and painted at the age of eighteen, before the 

 artist had received any instruction. The arrangement or compo- 

 sition of this early picture is all that is original : the parts or sep- 

 arate figures were chosen from various engravings. See Rollin's 

 Roman History, book 14th, sec. 2d, page 64 of the 2d London 

 edition. The earliest composition of the artist. Painted at Leb- 

 anon, 1774. 



" animasque magns, 

 Prodigum Paulum, superante Poeno." 



Horace, Book 1, Ode 12, I. 27,2?,. 



No. 28. — Five Heads, Oil Miniatures. 



Jonathan Trubibull, Speaker of the U. S. House of Repre- 

 sentatives, 1792. 

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