Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 15, 1797
Primary Source Reference:
Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, 15 July 1797
Additional Source Text:
"From the recollection he had of the late President [Washington] after an absence of 8 months. Altho of very indifferent sculpture, it possesses so much Character as to be readily recognized by most observers."
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired many objects 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. This war club (Object number 99-12-10/52985) may have come from the Peale Museum.
Gen. James Wilkinson (1757-1825) was Senior Officer of the U.S. Army at the time of this donation. He was later the first governor of the Louisiana Territory. Peale painted Wilkinson's portrait for the Peale Museum in 1797.
