Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 12, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 18
Additional Source Text:
The donor was "of Balt."
Notes:
This specimen may have been diatomaceous earth.
Sulphur Springs is probably present-day White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
The donor was probably James McHenry (1753-1816), Secretary of War in the Washington and Adams administrations. Peale painted a miniature portrait of McHenry in 1778 (P&M, 514 (p. 135).
