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of the best works of our American 

 painter, who became president of 

 the Eoyal Academy in London. 

 Fulton himself was an artist of 

 considerable ability, and pursued his 

 art studies in London under West's 

 direction. Among his works is a 

 most interesting portrait of himself, 

 which can be seen in the Brooklyn 

 Institute. Although this does not 

 equal West's portrait in artistic 

 merit, like other attempts of artists 

 to portray their own features it gives 



General Stewart L. Woodford, 

 President of the Hudson-Pulton Celebration 

 Commission. 



us something not to be found in 

 other portraits, namehy, the idea, or 

 perhaps we should rather say the 

 ideal, the artist has formed of him- 

 self. 



Henry W. Sackett, 

 Secretary of the Hudson-Pulton Celebration 

 Commission. 



2 In Brooklyn Institute exhibit. 

 Published by his permission. 



Hermann Ridder, 



Vice-president of the Hudson-Pulton 



Celebration Commission. 



One of the most interesting of 

 the printed documents referring to 

 the Eevolution is an old " Broad- 

 side " printed in ISTew York, March 

 25, 1783. 2 We are here given a 

 vivid idea of the time required for 

 the transmission of news in that day, 

 for this sheet tells us that the first 

 news of the signing of the prelim- 

 inaries to the treaty of peace at Paris 



Loaned by Colonel Henry T. Chapman. 



