Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 28, 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 1
Additional Source Text:
"Mr. Francillon, Jeweller in Norfolk St. Strand London, having presented to the Museum a number of fine Insects, some return should be made for them without delay. This Memorandum is made that it may have a chance of operating supposing any accident should prevent Rubens (upon whose memory it has hitherto rested) from attending to it. -- This is one of those Articles which shew the utility of this Memorandum book. Rembrandt."
Notes:
John Francillon (1744–1816) was a jeweler and lapidary, an English naturalist, and an entomologist of Huguenot descent. He was also a dealer in natural history specimens and paintings. He was the agent for John Abbot selling his American bird and natural history illustrations. He maintained a large insect collection. Some of his butterflies appear in the "Icones" of William Jones (1,500 paintings of butterflies now at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History). Francillon was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
No "return" for Francillon's donation had been made by July 1805. Selected Papers, 2, part 2: 861
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
