Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 29, 1812
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 62
Additional Source Text:
Donor is identified as from Wilmington, Del.
Notes:
St. Michael's Cave or Old St. Michael's Cave is a network of limestone caves within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve in Gibraltar. Its name is derived from a similar grotto in Monte Gargano in Apulia, Italy, where the archangel Michael is said to have appeared.
Abraham Allee (b. 1760) was the son of Abraham Allee (1696-1776), who built Allee House that now sits within Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Smyrna, Del.
