Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 19, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 90
Additional Source Text:
"This collection was deposited several years since and now presented."
Notes:
These fragments were first "Collected and presented by" James Schee (1764-1824), who was postmaster of Dover, Del., in 1810. Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 1 Mar 1810. An Accessions Book entry dated 3 Jan 1818 (p. 91) reads: "A valuable and interesting collection of the fragments of some of the principal Roman Temples & public edifices to the number of 44 with a short history of each." The collection was returned to Schee on 19 Jan 1821 (p.103).
