Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 19, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 37
Notes:
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.
For Lewis's son Edward S. Lewis, see Bellion, Citizen Spectator, pp. 171-173.
