Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 48
Additional Source Text:
"As follows. Viz. The Shade of miniature writing contains as follows, two United Hearts, containing two choice Verses to a Worthy Friend, with the Motto, Long may you live &c; In, To, is written two excellent Verses -- on Time; Dr. contains the 117th Psalm &c; Peter Renaudet takes Pope's Universal Prayer; Feby. 7 is the Creed, Evening Pray'r, and the Grace of Our Lord; and the Date, the Collect for Easter Day. Within the two dashes, is written, may you be blest &c."
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 1 Mar 1810 provides the donor's name.
Notes:
This artifact may have been displayed in one of "three frames containing Lenses and specimens of Miniature Writing." Cat 1848, p. 13
The meaning of "Peter Renaudet takes Pope's Universal Prayer" is unclear. A Peter Renaudet was a medical apprentice in New York in 1740 and by 1790 had left the country and was a "physician, of Great Britain." Ann Renaudet Chevalier (1792-1847) was the daughter of Peter Renaudet Chevalier (1761-1805), a 1780 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jane Harriet Lillie (1761-1847). Alexander Pope's The Universal Prayer was first published in 1738 / https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o3702-w0010.shtml
