Object Status:
Unlocated
June 18, 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: "Presented by judge Goldsborough, Maryland."
Notes:
The donor was John Beale Bordley, Jr. (1764–1815), son of John Beale Bordley (1727-1804), an early patron of Charles Willson Peale's artistic career.
Title Information:
Letters from Several Parts of Europe, and the East Written in the Years 1750, &c. In These Are Contained, the Writer's Observations on the Productions of Nature, the Monuments of Art, and the Manners of the Inhabitants
Imprint Information:
Dublin, 1754
