Describes a reportedly true incident in which George Washington, visiting the natural history museum of his friend, early American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase.
Briefly surveys the life of the early American portrait painter and describes an incident in which George Washington, visiting his natural history museum, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase.
