Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 2, 1809
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 42
Additional Source Text:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 1 Mar 1810 reads: "Of the harbours and ports, of the Islands and Continent of North America"
Notes:
The donor Joseph Dorfeuille (1791-1840) was a landscape artist, wax modeler, scientific illustrator, natural scientist, and showman. He was the proprietor of the Western Museum in Cincinnati 1823-1839. See Jeffrey Weidman et al., Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary (Kent, Ohio, 2000), p. 236.
