# Master Peters

- By: Joseph Wood (born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830)
- Date: 1804
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Douglas K.S. Hyland
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=15516)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1e1677fc5c730978b9cbab5c175efdb4.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Peters family played a prominent role in Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century. This portrait was originally attributed to Edward Greene Malbone, but research has since proved it to be the work of Joseph Wood.