Half-length portrait of Karthaus attired in a white collared shirt, waistcoat, and bowtie and a black jacket. He sits in a wooden chair and faces slightly right while his eyes look left. Below the portrait is a vignette of a landscape with trees and ships on the water in the background. Peter Arnold Karthaus (1765-1840) immigrated to the United States from Hamburg, Germany in 1796 and established a mercantile business in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River Valley., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from the item., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Fenderich, Charles, artist
Date
1832
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.40]
