Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 4, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 86
Notes:
St. George's Hall was a gallery carved on the north face of Gibraltar (the Notch) by the British in 1783 where seven cannon were mounted to defend the island following a siege by the Spanish. See Darren Fa and Clive Finlayson, The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068–1945 (Oxford, 2006), p. 30.
Elijah L. Lawton (d. 1819) of Georgia graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1809. He served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812. Horace Mather Lippincott, The University of Pennsylvania, Franklin's College (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 211
