Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 18, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 23
Notes:
Copper medal by John Matthias Reich (1768-1833), 1806, commemorating Edward Preble's successful attack on Triploi in 1804. On 10 Dec 1807 the Peale Museum received another one of these medals from Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith (1757-1842) of Maryland via Philadelphia Navy agent George Smith, and on 4 May 1814 it received a third from James Long of Philadelphia. Accessions Book, pp. 26, 73
In 1805 Thomas Jefferson gave Preble a polygraph machine that he had purchased from Peale. See https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/edward-preble-…
The doonor was a Philadelphia silver plater.
