1. On 20 May 1785 Peale opened at one end of his portrait gallery an exhibition of artfully mounted and lighted series of painted scenes which he called “Exhibition of Perspective Views with Changeable Effects.” For a full description of Peale’s “Moving Pictures,” see Miller, Peale Papers, description begins Lillian B. Miller, ed. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. 5 vols. New Haven, 1983–2000. description ends 1:428–33. George Turner, who was elected assistant secretary general at the Cincinnati’s meeting of May 1787, had asked Peale to put on this special showing (ibid., 478, n.3). GW, having the day before “Dined with the Members . . . of the Society of the Cincinnati,” on 16 May “Dined at the President Doctr. Franklins and drank Tea, and spent the evening at Mr. Jno. Penns” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 5:157).