Oil on canvas. One of the 78 scenes from American history by Ferris titled The Pageant of a Nation.
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.
This scene supposedly takes place following the victory at Yorktown. Washington is dancing with Mrs. Henry Willis of Fredericksburg; his mother is seated at the left.
But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.