Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 1816
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 82
Notes:
Moritz Fürst (1782-1841) executed a medal depicting the death of Turnus in 1808. Turnus was the legendary King of the Rutuli in Roman history killed by the hero Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.
Fürst was an American artist of Jewish-Slovak origin. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1807 and in 1808 settled in Philadelphia, where he set up business as a seal and steel engraver and die-sinker. He was subsequently employed by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia and soon received recognition as an early American medalist.
The donor was probably Philadelphia merchangt Horatio Mann (d. 1843 or 1844), who owned property on Prince Edward Island / http://www.gov.pe.ca/paroatom/index.php/horatio-mann-fonds-1820-1843
