Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 5, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 13
Additional Source Text:
"It was situated immediately over the patella, and in the center of a Tear, which was produced by a burn which she had when young. -- It was when first taken off the colour of the negro woman from whom it was taken. Exterpated and pr[esented] by Anderson Donaphan."
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 25 Mar 1806 reads "Dr. Anderson Donaphan."
Notes:
Dr. Anderson Doniphan (1764-1841) lived in Virginia and died in Kentucky. During the War 1812 he was a physician and surgeon in Germantown, Ky. / https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119985079/anderson-doniphan
