Peale’s Museum

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Ticket to Peale’s Museum, 1807

Ticket to Peale’s Museum, 1807

Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This particular ticket is a six-month…

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Philadelphia Museum — Ground Plan, c. 1821—26

Philadelphia Museum — Ground Plan, c. 1821—26

The Philadelphia Museum — or Peale’s Museum as it was colloquially known — was born out of the home of Charles Willson…

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The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum, 1822

The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum, 1822
by Charles Willson Peale (1741—1827); Titian Ramsay Peale (1799—1885)

Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper; 14 x 20 3/4 in. (35.6 x 52.7 cm). The Detroit Institute of Arts,…

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Working Sketch of the Mastodon, 1801

Working Sketch of the Mastodon, 1801
by Rembrandt Peale (1778—1860)

Pencil on paper. Digital Collections, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA. This is a drawing of the…

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The Gigantic Mastodon, 1821

The Gigantic Mastodon, 1821
by Titian Ramsay Peale (1799—1885)

Pencil on paper. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA.

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Physiognotrace, 1803

Physiognotrace, 1803
by Charles Willson Peale (1741—1827); John Isaac Hawkins (1772—1855)

Watercolor on paper; 8½ x 7¾ inches). Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. This physiognotrace…

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White-Headed or Bald Eagle, n.d.

White-Headed or Bald Eagle, n.d.
by Charles Willson Peale (1741—1827)

Taxidermy. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

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By modern standards there is something unlikeable about John Hancock. His type of patriotism and charity is as obsolete as his brocaded dressing-gowns and jewelled buttons. He was one of those men who curiously go in and out of style. Once they are out they are hard to value. ‘The golden showers of guineas’ that marked his almost royal progress, his big speeches, like ‘burn Boston and make John Hancock a beggar if the public good requires it,’ do not arouse in us the same genuine enthusiasm they did in his contemporaries. Such men as Paul Revere, [Royal Governor Thomas] Hutchinson, Joseph Warren, or Sam Adams never are in style or out. Their personalities exist quite independently from the accident of their birth in the first half of the eighteenth century. This is not quite true of John Hancock.

— Esther Forbes
Paul Revere & The World He Lived In (1942)