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The Correct Anns of the State of New Yorh. 



Besides these two copies, a tiiird was made for the Centennial Ex- 

 hibition in Piiiladelphia for the Hall devoted to the Women's Pavilion 

 for the Works of Women. This copy was embroidered by Tiffany & 

 Co., on a light colored silk, and was in size about fifteen by twelve 

 feet. The expense was paid by collections made for the purpose from 

 the women of the State of JSTew York, under the auspices of Mrs. 

 Howard Town send. By means of a second appropriation of the Legis- 

 lature in 1878, obtained upon the request of the same lady, another 

 copy, the fourth of the same painting, was made for the Mount 

 Vernon Association, to be hung up with the arms of the other States 

 in the mansion at Mt. Vernon. 



Having now given a history of these three earliest known specimens 

 of the Arms, and accompanied each one with a scientific description, 

 it seems necessary and unavoidable that I should describe particularly 

 the earliest specimen in language which shall be clear and sufficiently 

 exact, avoiding as much as may be possible technical terms, and that 

 I should at the same time indicate the points wherein the second 

 and third differ from the first. 



Arms. Shield. At the base of the shield of the first specimen, a 

 shore of land is seen fringed with shrubbery, beyond there is an 

 expanse of water smooth and calm. In the two later specimens the 

 water commences at the very base of the shield, in the second it is in 

 commotion, and in the third it is calm. Upon the water a ship and 

 a sloop are seen advancing toward each other. Upon the second and 

 third there are no vessels. Beyond the water appear in the two first 

 three mountains, the central one being the most elevated. In the 

 Library copy of the third there are mountains, but on the painting in 

 St. Paul's chapel it is clear that the sun rises directly from the water 

 without mountains. In the first and second two-thirds of a sun, with 

 a great effulgence of rays, appears beyond the mountains. 



above it, but uot touching, an eagle rising proper, to the sinister, liis head re- 

 flexed below his breast, grasping in his beak his dexter talon. 



Supporters on a quasi compartment formed by the extension of the scroll or 

 Dexter. Liberty, hair brown, decorated with pearls, proper, face, neck, arms, 

 hands and feet also proper ; sandalled gules, vested vert ; depending from and 

 behind her shoulders a brown mantle, in her dexter hand a pole sable, spiked at 

 the foot or, thereon a Phrygian cap argent, the sinister haud resting on the shield. 

 Sinister. Justice, her face, neck, arms, hands and feet proper, sandalled gules, her 

 hair brown and flowing, decorated with pearls, vested in a brownish gray, cinc- 

 tured about the waist azure, the cincture fringed or, bound about the eyes with a 

 fillet sable, depending from and behind her shoulders a mantle as the cincture, 

 holding in her dexter hand a sword erect argent pomelled and hilted gold ; in her 

 left depending by a ribbon gules, her scales, the beam sable, the strings as the 

 ribbon, the scales, round, or. — From N. Y. Geneal. and Biog. Record, 1872, vol. 

 Ill, p. 119. 



