Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 38r
Notes:
Engraving by Peter Paul Benazech (ca. 1744-ca. 1783), after design by Charles Eisen (1720-1778), Urn or Garden Vase (1760)
The donor, Charles Cist (1738-1805), was a Philadelphia printer. He was born in in St. Petersburg, Russia (birth name Thiel) and emigrated to America in 1769, settling in Philadelphia in 1773.
