Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 1774
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 9v
Notes:
Thomas Holloway (1748-1827), artist, silver medal commemorating the Rev. George Whitefield (1714-1770), Great Britain, 1770
No. 525 in Charles Wyllys Betts, American Colonial History Illustrated by Contemporary Medals (New York, 1894), pp. 232-233
See also Dec 1774 entry for "A Copper medal of Whitefield."
The donor, Robert Aitken (1734-1802), was a Philadelphia engraver, printer, and bookseller. His short-lived monthly, The Pennsylvania Magazine, for which Du Simitière provided a title page vignette, a map, and other drawings that were engraved, employed Thomas Paine as an editor. Aitken was, with Philadelphia carver and gilder James Reynolds, one of the appraisers of Du Simitière's estate.
