Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 24, 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 4
Additional Source Text:
"Where the Delaware passes the blue Mountains on a Hill 600 feet above the River."
Notes:
Minisink, N.Y. is 55 miles northeast of the Delaware Water Gap, on the border of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where the Delaware River cuts through a large ridge of the Appalachian Mountains.
William E. Hũlings (1765-1839) was a Pennsylvanian who was appointed vice consul at the port of New Orleans in 1798. James Peale painted a miniature portrait of him in 1789. Madison Papers, Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0185 ; Theodore Bolton, Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature [New York, 1921], p. 125
