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[[File:0887.jpg|thumb|225px|Fig. 1, "Grand Civic Arch," 1824, in Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace," ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' 59, no. 3. (1969), p. 103.]] | [[File:0887.jpg|thumb|225px|Fig. 1, "Grand Civic Arch," 1824, in Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace," ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' 59, no. 3. (1969), p. 103.]] | ||
| − | * December 8, 1783, describing his triumphal [[arch]] erected in Philadelphia, | + | * December 8, 1783, describing his triumphal [[arch]] erected in Philadelphia, Pa. (quoted in Sellers 1969: 196) <ref>Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace," ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' 59, no. 3. (1969): p. 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/CKDWT3TP view on Zotero].</ref> |
| − | Pa. (quoted in Sellers 1969: 196) <ref>Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace," ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' 59, no. 3. (1969): p. 103, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/CKDWT3TP view on Zotero].</ref> | ||
:“I am at this time employed in painting a transparent triumphal [[Arch]] for the Public rejoicings on the peace, and very much hurried.” [Fig. 1] | :“I am at this time employed in painting a transparent triumphal [[Arch]] for the Public rejoicings on the peace, and very much hurried.” [Fig. 1] | ||
Revision as of 16:18, March 19, 2015
History
Texts
- December 8, 1783, describing his triumphal arch erected in Philadelphia, Pa. (quoted in Sellers 1969: 196) [1]
- “I am at this time employed in painting a transparent triumphal Arch for the Public rejoicings on the peace, and very much hurried.” [Fig. 1]
- c. 1825, describing Philadelphia, Pa. (Miller, Hart, and Ward, eds., 2000: 5:91) [2]
- “When Peace was concluded between Great Britain & the united States of America, President Dickenson and the Executive Counsil employed Peale to paint a Triumphal Arch in transparent Colours. It consisted of three arches, the Center Arch was 20 feet high, and the side arches each 15 feet high, and the whole length extended nearly to the width of Market street, and it was 46 feet high, independant of the statues of the 4 cardenal Virtues larger than human figures. The architecture was of the Ionic order, ornamented with reaths of Flowers, in festoons and winding round the Columes. It was also ornamented in sundry parts of the building as follows[:]
- “A figure of Peace, represented in a beautiful female figure, and various attendants amidst the Clouds. These were to be lighted by lights placed behind the clouds and out of the sight of the spectators, and doubtless would have had a most pleasing affect in passing down from the Top of the Presidents House to the Triumphal Arch, with a fuse in the hand of Peace, which was to be directed to a fuse which would light 1100 Lamps, & illuminate the whole of the Triumphal Arch in a minute.”
Images
Parnassus, c. 1769.
Charles Carroll, c. 1770.
Margaret Tilghman Carroll, c. 1770.
Falls of the Schuylkill, c. 1770.
John Beale Bordley, 1770.
William Paca, 1772.
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Mary White Morris, c. 1782.
“An East View of GRAY’S FERRY, near Philadelphia, with the TRIUMPHAL ARCHES, &c. erected for the Reception of General Washington, April 20th.1789,” in Columbian Magazine 3 (May 1789): pl. opp. p. 282.
Sketches of Belfield, 1810.
Ground plot of Belfield, 1810.
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Garden Gate at "Belfield," c. 1810-1817.
Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, Nov. 12, 1813.
Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, Nov. 22, 1815.
Cabbage Patch, The Gardens of Belfield, Pennsylvania, c. 1815-1816.
Belfield Farm, c. 1816.
View of the garden at Belfield, 1816.
"Grand Civic Arch," 1824, in Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 59, no. 3. (1969), p. 103.
References
Notes
- ↑ Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 59, no. 3. (1969): p. 103, view on Zotero.
- ↑ Lillian B. Miller, and et al, eds., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family: Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, 1735-1791. Vol. 1; Charles Willson Peale, Artist as Museum Keeper, 1791-1810. Vol 2, Pts. 1-2; The Belfield Farm Years, 1810-1820. Vol. 3; The Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale. Vol. 5. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983–2000), view on Zotero.
