A french print in the amourous style entitled, La vertue sous la garde de la fidelite, invente & dessine par Charles Eisen, grave Par. P. A. Le Beau, 1772

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 65v

Notes:

Englaving by Pierre Adrien le Beau (1748-after 1804), after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720-1778), La Vertue Sous la Garde de la Fidélité (1772)

The donor was Benjamin Duffield, (1753–1799), the son of Philadelphia clock- and watchmaker Edward Duffield. He graduated from the College of Philadelphia (1771); completed medical courses there (1774), and went to Edinburgh to finish his training. He was a founding member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.