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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.]]
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* December 8, 1783, describing his triumphal [[arch]] erected in Philadelphia,
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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>
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:“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]
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* c. 1825, describing Philadelphia, Pa. (Miller, Hart, and Ward, eds., 2000: 5:91) <ref>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), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IZAKPCBG view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“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 [[arch|arches]], the Center [[Arch]] was 20 feet high, and the side [[arch|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 [[statue|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 [[column|Columes]]. It was also ornamented in sundry parts of the building as follows[:]
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:“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.”
  
 
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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,

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.”

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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