Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 9, 1822
Primary Source Reference:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 9 Jan 1822
Notes:
German physician and anatomist Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was the inventor of phrenology.
Peale's plaster head probably resembled that made by James DeVille in London in 1821, pictured here.
A portrait of Gall by Rembrandt Peale hung in the Museum.
The donor, Richard Harlan (1796-1843), M.D., was appointed the Museum's professor of comparative anatomy in April 1821.
