Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 20, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 69
Notes:
These may have been the slippers seen in the Peale Museum about 1825 by Anne Newport Royall: "The Persian shoes, or rather slippers, are a singular curiosity; they are made of something as hard as iron, but were so covered with gold and silver that it was impossible to tell the principal material. The slipper tapers off from the ankle to the toe, nor does it stop there; a crooked substance, of the same material, issues from the toe, and turns up to the instep, in the form of a bow. They are very heavy, and look like anything but convenient." Anne Newport Royall, Sketches of the History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (New Haven, 1826), p. 216
