Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 4, 1811
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 55
Notes:
The Peale Museum's cavesson, or noseband for a horse, may have resembled one of the three examples shown in the lower right of the plate pictured here from Diderot's Encyclopedia. Planches Pour L'Encyclopédie Ou Pour Le Dictionaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts Libéraux et Des Arts Méchaniques, 2d ed., vol. 4 (Lucques, 1768), plate 28.
