Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
1826
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 128
Notes:
The donor was possibly Capt. R. Babcock, owner and captain of the merchant ship Eliza (port of Calcutta), who died in Bombay in 1825 at the age of 51. The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, 6 (1825): 405; Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of Employing Indian Built Ships in the Trade of the East-India Company (London, 1809), p. 240
