Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 66r
Additional Source Text:
"A kind of Enthusiast in his way, who lived many years in Philadelphia and its environs, and was very remarkable for many peculiarities. I had it varnished and put in a black and gold frame."
Notes:
The copper plate of the portrait of Benjamin Lay (by Henry Dawkins after a painting by William Williams, Sr.) is unlocated; the engraving, pictured here, was printed in Philadelphia by John Dunlap, ca. 1760.
Du Simitière owned a copy of the print at the time of his death (framed), valued at 10s in his estate inventory (p. 2).
The donor, John Dunlap (1747-1812), a native of Ireland, was a Philadelphia printer who printed the first copies of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
