1. Peale refers to a mezzotint print of Benjamin Franklin in his letter of 27 Feb. 1787 to GW, and by April Peale had completed a mezzotint of Lafayette. While at the Constitutional Convention, GW sat for Peale, who wished to produce a mezzotint of GW (see Peale to GW, 29 May 1787). Peale advertised in the Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia) on 20 Aug. the sale within two weeks of his prints of Washington. GW hung at Mount Vernon the print of himself alongside those of Lafayette and Franklin (Wick, Graphic Portraits of Washington, description begins Wendy C. Wick. George Washington, an American Icon: The Eighteenth-Century Graphic Portraits. Washington, D.C., 1982. description ends 95–96).

2. One of the mountain lions, Peale wrote, was “eight feet in length, and the other seven and a half” (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 1:490, n.2).