Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 12, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 36
Additional Source Text:
"Presented by his father"
Notes:
For Edward S. Lewis, see Wendy Bellion, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (Chapel Hill, 2011), pp. 171-173.
His father was Samuel Lewis (ca. 1757-1822), who worked at the "Plantation Office" (the Board of Trade and Plantations) in London in the 1770s and was in America by 1780. See Wendy Bellion, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (Chapel Hill, 2011), pp. 171-229.
