Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 38r
Notes:
The source of the image is a print by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and Jean Eric Rehn after Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1707-1783), published in Recueil de divers animaux de chasse tiré du cabinet de monsieur le comte de Tessin dessiné daprès nature (Paris, ca. 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.
