Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 1, 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 1 Mar 1810
Notes:
George Godsell Thresher (1780-1857) was an English marine artist and calligrapher who taught drawing, painting, penmanship, and bookkeeping in New York from 1806 to 1812 and then lived for a time in Philadelphia before settling in Nova Scotia.
An advertisement for his school in the Evening Post (New York), 10 Oct 1808 describes several of his large-scale calligraphic specimens, one of which he evidently gave to the Peale Museum.
A surviving example of Thresher's large-scale calligraphy is the document pictured here, a 91.5 x 9.7-inch 1810 muster-in/muster-out roll of a New York regiment.
See Dictionary of Canadian Biography (http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thresher_george_godsell_8F.html) and George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 (New York, 1957), p. 629.
