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Pennsylvania native
Royal Academy of Arts

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Angora Cat
Book of taxidermy

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two dead Chinese pheasants

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President of the museum's advisory board
arranged exhibits and works from native Americans
-> gathered by Clark and Lewis

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friend and collaborator

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Portraits (distinctive version of neoclassical portraiture)

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Portraits (distinctive version of neoclassical portraiture)

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- signers of the Declaration of Independence
- military officers in the subsequent war
distinguished emissaries from abroad

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- lofty enterprise endorsed by the preeminent figures of the time
- By 1790 he had more than 1,000 objects
- defined by scientific accuracy of the arrangement of specimens, together with the quality of the taxidermy and the number of samples
=> drive for nationalization of his museum was ultimately unsuccessful
- in 1820s about 100,000 specimens

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parts of a mastodon skeleton are visible beneath the curtain at right, and some stray mastodon bones occupy the right foreground and lean against the table
=> the mastodon was actually displayed in another gallery off to the left of the

one shown
==> sign of its centrality to the museum and

Peale's own sense of his achievement.

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in the picture's lower left corner , Peale's taxidermy

toolkit is open in preparation for preserving the dead turkey resting on it

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shows himself dressed in old-fashioned knee breeches, in contrast to the more fashionable trousers worn by younger men in the gallery behind him
=> aligns him with the older generation of the Enlightenment and its values of order, rationality, and science, which he hoped to instill in museum visitors through his exhibits and his art

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his goal was to make visitors and viewers able citizens of the new republic

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in his museum, as in his paintings, nature and art were parallel representations of the harmony and order of the universe
=> they were transparent to each other as mutual repositories of clarity, reason, and design.

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part of daily life

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profile cutter with the help of physiognotrace
-> drew a significant number of female customers

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adviser and distinguished doctor and professor of anatomy

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of different races of mankind, and some eminent individuals
-> "a perfect likeness"

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- snakes and pigs with extra heads
- cow with five legs, six feet, and two tails

human oddities were present only in pictures or samples
- clipping of silvery hair from an albino woman
- portrait of a man alleged to be 134 years old
- portrait of "a person born a Negro, or a very dark Mullatoe, who afterwards became white."
- artwork by handicapped women
- a painting depicting the sailor John Gallaway with a horn-shaped growth on his chest as the result of a burn wound
- exhibited the trigger finger of a murderer, Mr. Bruliman, as a stimulus to courteous behavior.

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began to disintegrate after Peale's death in 1827. Most of the contents were dispersed at a sheriff's sale in 1848

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How do you explain his interest in the Lusus naturae (a deformed person or thing)?

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How do you explain his interest in the Lusus naturae (a deformed person or thing)?

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What makes Peale an important figure of the American Enlightenment?

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What makes Peale an important figure of the American Enlightenment?

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What importance plays the nature in the American Enlightenment?

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What importance plays the nature in the American Enlightenment?