Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 17, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired many cultural items in 1899 from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849. Irvine's donation cannot be positively identified with a particular extant artifact, but the garter may have resembled the one pictured here.
William Irvine (1741-1804) was an Irish-American physician, soldier, and statesman. A native of Ireland, he served in the Continental Army (commander of the Western Department at Fort Pitt, 1781-1783) and represented Pennsylvania in both the Continental Congress (1787-88) and the U.S. House of Representatives (1793-1795).
