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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[To complete this portrait of Thomas Jefferson commissioned by the United States Military Academy, Thomas Sully stayed for twelve days at Monticello, making sketches and painting the half-length study seen here. Jefferson was concerned that the artist’s ”fine pencil would be illy [sic] bestowed” on a man of seventy-eight years. Sully’s vividly colored and loose-flowing brushstrokes, however, give his sitter a sense of freshness and vitality. After delivering the completed large-scale work to the Academy, Sully kept this study and produced several copies. He touched up the original study in 1830 before Jefferson’s protégé William Short obtained the canvas and donated it to the APS.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sully]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Begun in 1821, Finished in 1830]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[American Philosophical Society. Gift of William Short, 1830.]]></dcterms:rights>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vaughanhomestead.org/exhibits/items/show/25">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Portrait of George Washington]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gilbert Stuart’s iconic image of George Washington is familiar to many viewers as the face on the one-dollar bill. Stuart called it his ”hundred dollar bill” portrait, after the amount he charged for each replica. Stuart was praised for accurately capturing Washington’s distinctive appearance, even his unflattering mouth. ”When I painted him,” the artist said, ”he had just a set of false teeth inserted, which accounts for the constrained expression so noticeable about the mouth and lower part of the face.” Stuart painted sixty copies of this portrait, which was in high demand following Washington’s death in 1799. This is the only Stuart replica of Washington still owned today by an organization that purchased it from the artist.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert Stuart]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[c. 1797]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[American Philosophical Society]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medallion Portrait of Benjamin Franklin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Profile bas-relief portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a fur hat, white on green jasper dip. ”Franklin” and ”Wedgwood/o” on back. After 1777-1779 model (possibly), which is after 1777 ”fur cap” medallion by Jean-Baptiste Nini.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[19th Century]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[American Philosophical Society.]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Portrait of Joseph Priestley]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Profile portrait of Joseph Priestley, white on green jasper dip. ”PRIESTLEY” at bottom. ”Wedgwood/O” on back. After c. 1776 bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[A. H. Bentley ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[c. 1905]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[American Philosophical Society.]]></dcterms:rights>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vaughanhomestead.org/exhibits/items/show/36">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Graphics made to show names and dates of the Vaughan children.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Tara McGowan]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Portraits courtesy of the Vaughan Homestead]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From Sarah Manning Vaughan to her children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Letter to her children during her confinement with one of her youngest daughters.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Manning Vaughan]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1791 or 1793]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Course of Lectures, for Sunday Evenings: containing Religious Advice to Young Persons in 1783.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Attributed to Mary Ann Kilner (1753-1831).]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[John Marshall &amp; Co. No. 4 Aldermary Church-Yard in Bow Lane, London.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[December 1, 1783]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Portrait of Benjamin Franklin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This portrait of Benjamin Franklin highlights his study of ”useful knowledge.” Franklin is surrounded with books, papers and a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, linking Franklin to a distinguished tradition of natural philosophers. While Franklin’s right hand echoes traditional poses of contemplation, the thumb position was uniquely his own. When reading, he was known to rest his elbow on the table and hold his chin with one thumb to keep his spectacles in focus. The original portrait by Scottish artist David Martin now hangs in the White House. Franklin admired the portrait so much that he ordered a copy from Martin for his own home in Philadelphia. Charles Willson Peale made this additional copy, which was presented to the APS in 1785.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Peale, Charles Willson]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1772]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[American Philosophical Society. Gift of Charles Willson Peale, 1785.]]></dcterms:rights>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vaughanhomestead.org/exhibits/items/show/44">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Émile, ou de l’éducation. <br />
]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Par J. J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève.  ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Genève]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1789]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scenes for Children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[By a Lady]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Printed and sold by John Marshall, No. 4. Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, and No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[n.d.]]></dcterms:date>
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