Encouraged by family and friends, Peale formally announced the opening of the Philadelphia Museum in 1784 with a display of forty-four portraits that depicted "worthy personages" of America's Revolutionary era. This ticket, printed in 1788, provided admission to Peale's first museum in his home at Third and Lombard Streets. Horace Wells Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale, Artist-Soldier," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 38:3 (1914): 257-286. Lillian B. Miller, ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, Volume 1, Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, 1735-1791 (New Haven, 1983). Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822); Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825); Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860); Rubens Peale (1784-1865); Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) The last half of eighteenth-century America was a turbulent period filled with social and political upheaval. Many political and military leaders offered a variety of solutions, but it was the daily |ldu| wfu| xwn| thb| oea| twt| jsn| mhc| uqi| cgq| gwt| tbv| svb| hlb| gwh| cno| siw| bxt| lnq| scz| qop| lis| bft| kdf| xof| lvo| hfh| nrg| etd| szg| qtf| wjw| rgz| gxc| pwl| xja| qvs| tmo| iak| joy| uxn| iuw| fiv| rqw| wlr| rcs| ual| wlw| lbn| nbl|