Silhouette Self-Portrait (1789-1861)
Classification:
Date:
1842
Medium:
Etching with scratching out and brown ink inscriptions on thin card
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (13.3 x 8.3 cm)
frame: 9 x 7 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.
Description:
Silhouette: Self portrait etching in the form of a carte de visite or calling card; Bust of artist in left-facing profile; printed on rectangular cream colored card with irregular edges; inscription handwritten in ink at bottom of card; rectangular wooden frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
Z.2340b
Marks:
Inscribed and signed below image in brown ink: "Presented to Miss Hta. Hoskins / by her humble Servant / Aug.st Edouart / Philadelphia 20th October 1842 --"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed below image in brown ink: "Presented to Miss Hta. Hoskins / by her humble Servant / Aug.st Edouart / Philadelphia 20th October 1842 --"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
55521
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Dr. William Littleton Jones: Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1844
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, white chalk, and white gouache, laid on yellow prepared paper with lithographic background and gray wash
Dimensions:
image: 10 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.; frame: 14 3/4 x 11 x 1 1/2 in.
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length, left-facing male figure in black cut-out paper with fine linear detailing, affixed to cream paper with lithographed view of domestic interior with table in mid-ground at right and large window at center back; rectangular wooden frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
Z.2340a
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "aug.st Edouart fecit / Natchez April 24th / 1844 --"; verso inscribed at center vertically in gray ink: "Dr. William Littleton Jones / Natchéz -- Miss -- / U.S.A"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1844
eMuseum Object ID:
55520
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Bust Portrait of an Unidentified Man in the Clouds
Collections:
Classification:
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Not promoted
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink and wash on paper, mounted on thin board
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 5 in. ( 16.5 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Elie Nadelman, Museum of Folk Arts, Riverdale-on-Hudson, Bronx, New York
Object Number:
1937.325
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
55516
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Peter Bryant, M.D.
Classification:
Medium:
Photographic reproduction of ink drawing
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 3 in. ( 11.4 x 7.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Anna Fairchild
Object Number:
1910.17
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
55515
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Collection of 2 lithographs
Classification:
Medium:
paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 24 x 20 in. ( 2.5 x 61 x 50.8 cm )
Description:
One lithograph by Bry entitled "Cabbies" depicting the cabstand at Central Park South and 5th Avenue; one litho by Bianco depicting leafy plant in a flower pot. Two crayon sketches by Bry transferred to works on paper storage-accession numbers Z.3384, Z.3385
Object Number:
INV.14736
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
55494
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Horse Cab before Equestrian Statue at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Black crayon on paper
Dimensions:
9 3/16 x 12 1/8 in.
Object Number:
Z.3385
Marks:
signature: lower right "Bry"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black crayon: "Bry"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
55350
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Arms of New Netherland and Great Britain
Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1864
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
25 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. irregular
Description:
Historical
Credit Line:
Commissioned by the New-York Historical Society
Object Number:
Z.3386
Inscriptions:
Ettiquette, probably once attached to old mount, inscribed in black ink underlined in red: "ARMS OF NEW NETHERLAND / and GREAT BRITAN. / BY ABRAHAM HOSIER. / FOR THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE / CONQUEST OF NEW NETHERLAND. / CELEBRATED BY THE N.Y. HISTORICAL SOCIETY / OCT. 12th. 1864,"
Gallery Label:
After living in New York City for more than forty years, Dr. Alexander Anderson moved across the Hudson River in 1866 into this house at 135 Wayne Street in Jersey City, where he died in January 1870.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1864
eMuseum Object ID:
55293
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European Mountain Roads Scene with Shrine, Folio no.16 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
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Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1838
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, black ink, and graphite with glazing on card bound into an album
Dimensions:
overall: 3 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number:
1944.381
Inscriptions:
Signed? and inscribed at lower right outside image in black ink: "G. Marsiglia. 1829."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1829
eMuseum Object ID:
55291
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Sixteenth-Century Costume Piece of Man Teaching a Child to Dance, Folio no.17 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
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Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1830
Medium:
Graphite with gray and brown washes on paper, bound into an album
Dimensions:
overall: 3 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.
Description:
Genre
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number:
1944.382
Inscriptions:
Iscribed and signed at lower right in graphite: "Robt. W. Weir. / 1830"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
55292
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Musicians Playing by a Lakeside European Villa, Folio no. 9 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
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Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1827
Medium:
Graphite and brown ink wash on beige paper, laid on sheet bound into album
Dimensions:
overall: 8 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.
Description:
Genre
Credit Line:
Gift of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number:
1944.374
Inscriptions:
Sheet bound into album signed and inscribed at lower right outside image in graphite: " S.F.B. Morse, . 1827."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1827
eMuseum Object ID:
55290
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