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An oil painting on cloth, representing an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by moon light

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

February 1782

Primary Source Reference:

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

Additional Source Text:

"About 14 inches high, and twenty one and half broad. This is also, a little injured in the sky."

Notes:

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.