Charles Peale Polk
Peter Hoffman II
1793
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 46 5/8 × 41 5/8 × 2 3/4 in. (118.4 × 105.7 × 7 cm.)
Unframed: 41 1/16 × 35 15/16 in. (104.3 × 91.3 cm.)
Sight: 40 1/4 × 35 1/4 in. (102.2 × 89.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
1988.137
Linda Crocker Simmons, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Charles Peale Polk, 1767-1822, A Limner and his Likenesses," July 18-Sept. 6, 1981, p. ??, no. ??, ill. (circulated to Williamsburg)
Simmons, Linda Crocker. "Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and his Likenesses," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, July 18 to September 6, 1981, and at four other museums, September 27, 1981 - October 15, 1982. [Catalog of an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, July 18 - September 6, 1981]
Inscribed: Signed lower right: “aged 50/0 Polk/pinx 1793’’
