Charles Willson Peale and His World

Pp. 272, 180 illustrations of Peale's paintings and actual objects from his museum (many are in color). Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. Peale painted thousands of canvases and that provided a superb record of colonial and federal society. In mid-life Peale turned to the study of nature and assembled a museum in Philadelphia that was, at its time, the most important institution of its kind in the country.