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1125. CANOVA (A.), Washington's

Statue and.—Who should make the Washington
statue? There can be but one answer to this. Old Canova, of Rome. No artist in
Europe would place himself in a line with him;
and for thirty years, within my own knowledge,
he has been considered by all Europe as without
a rival.—
To Nathaniel Macon. Washington ed. vi, 534.
(M. 1816)