Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 7, 1791
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 7 Feb 1791
Additional Source Text:
The donor is identified as "Congressman for Maryland."
Also listed in New-Hampshire Spy (Portsmouth), 23 Feb 1791
Notes:
For the grotto (which resembled a mine) at the villa of Alexander Pope in Twickenham, Middlesex, west of London, see http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=9&cid=1&ctid=2
William Vans Murray (1760-1803) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1788 to 1790, and in the United States House of Representatives from 1791 to 1797. He was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1797 to 1801. (Wikipedia)
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