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John Vaughan
Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872
Ferdinand Pettrich modeled this piece of the philanthropist John Vaughan in Philadelphia in 1842. A wealthy wine merchant and patron of the arts and sciences, Vaughan was well known in Philadelphia society during the early nineteenth century and may have been a patron of the artist’s during his first years in America.
- Date
- 1842
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- plaster
- Department
- SAAM
- Institution
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- saam_XX36
- Credit
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jacob Snider, Jr.
