A simple square format distinguishes this elegant looking glass from more ordinary English and American circular mirrors freighted with carved eagles, dolphins, or cornucopia. But who made it? And where? An inked inscription, “P. del Vecchio,” suggests that the craftsman was Peter del Vecchio, who worked in Baltimore from about 1797 to 1837 as a carver, gilder, and maker of picture frames and scientific instruments. Cast ornament on the mirror relates it directly to picture frames made at the time. But behind the mirror glass, old newspapers printed in both New York and Baltimore raise the question of del Vecchio’s possible connection with a family of Italian frame and mirror makers active in New York from 1813 to 1854. Perhaps the entrepreneurial del Vecchio only retailed the looking glass here in Baltimore.