Charles Willson Peale and Moses Williams’s Philadelphia Museum

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Painting of Charles Wilson Peele, holding back curtain.
Charles Willson Peale. The Artist in His Museum. 1822. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The Joseph Harrison, Jr. Collection). https://www.philamuseum.org/
Admission ticket to Mr. Peale's Museum.
Charles Willson Peale. Admission Ticket to Peale’s Museum. 1794. Engraving. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Jack L. Lindsey in honor of H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., and Robert L. McNeil, Jr., 1997. https://www.philamuseum.org/
Water color painting of the main hall of the museum. On one wall are paintings - portraits and wildlife. On the other side are portrait busts.
Charles Willson Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale. The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale’s Museum. 1822. Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts: Founders Society Purchase, Director’s Discretionary Fund. https://www.dia.org/
Hollow cut silhouette of man.
Moses Williams. Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). From the Album of Peale Museum Silhouettes. After 1802. Hollow-cut silhouette with pen and black ink and traces of graphite on wove paper. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009. https://www.philamuseum.org/
Silhouette portrait of Moses Williams.
Raphaelle Peale or Moses Williams. Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles. Circa 1803. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Library Company of Philadelphia. https://www.librarycompany.org/
Silhouette portrait of man with high collar and tie.
Moses Williams. Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825). From the Album of Peale Museum Silhouettes. Circa 1805. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009. https://www.philamuseum.org/
Illustration of physiognotrace.
John Vogler. Physiognotrace or Silhouette Machine. 1810. Cherry, walnut, brass, iron, tin. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: Wachovia Historical Society Collection. https://mesda.org/
Silhouette portrait of of young woman with bows in hair.
Moses Williams. Unidentified Young Woman. From the Album of Peale Museum Silhouettes. After 1803. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009. https://www.philamuseum.org/
Silhouette of older man.
Moses Williams. Profile of an Unidentified Man. From the Album of Peale Museum Silhouettes. Circa 1805. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009. https://www.philamuseum.org/
Moses Williams. Martha G. Grubb. Circa 1805. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009. https://www.philamuseum.org/
Moses Williams. Martha G. Grubb. Circa 1805. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2009. https://www.philamuseum.org/
John Vogler. Physiognotrace or Silhouette Machine. 1810. Cherry, walnut, brass, iron, tin. Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Wachovia Historical Society Collection. Acc. M-6. https://www.oldsalem.org/
John Vogler. Physiognotrace or Silhouette Machine. 1810. Cherry, walnut, brass, iron, tin. Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Wachovia Historical Society Collection. Acc. M-6. https://www.oldsalem.org/
A wooden standing physiognotrace.

Mervin Martin after John Isaac Hawkins. J. I. Hawkins’ Physiognotrace, replica. Circa 1970 after 1802. Pine with metals. University of Pittsburgh, Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture. Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park. https://uag.pitt.edu/index.php. https://www.nps.gov/inde/index.htm. 
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