Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 25v
Additional Source Text:
"With some houses on fire about 7 1/2 inches broad & 5 1/2 high done here by Nath. Grogan from Ireland of his own invention which he painted lately for me. I have put in a broad black frame of English oak made with the inner moulding carv'd & gilt."
Notes:
Nathaniel Grogan (1740-1807), from Cork, Ireland, was serving in the British army during the British occupation of Philadelphia. See his wikipedia entry and https://de1.zetcom-group.de/MpWeb-mpCrawfordArtGallery/v?mode=online#!m…
