Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 15, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 23
Additional Source Text:
Aurora. General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 12 Oct 1807 adds: "Written for the Museum, one of them exhibits the Lord's Prayer, written in one line 1-1/2 inches long, and again a circle the size of one sixth of a dime."
Notes:
This artifact may have been displayed in one of "three frames containing Lenses and specimens of Miniature Writing." Cat 1848, p. 13
Samuel Lewis (ca. 1757-1822) worked at the "Plantation Office" (the Board of Trade and Plantations) in London in the 1770s and was in America by 1780. See Wendy Bellion, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (Chapel Hill, 2011), pp. 171-229.
