Design for a Stained-Glass Window, Bunnell Studio, Carnegie Hall, Cleveland, Ohio
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1923
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and Conté crayon on paper laid on board, overmatted in original presentation mount
Dimensions:
image: 3 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (8.3 x 5.4 cm)
mat: 10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. ( 26.7 x 20.6 cm )
Description:
Design drawing: Tropical landscape with sunset framed in Egyptian motif (winged sundisk).
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Egon Neustadt
Object Number:
N84.140
Marks:
Inscribed on original presentation mount below window at center in graphite:"- SKETCH - NO. - 2874 - - SCALE - 1" = 1' 0" - / - SCHEME - A - - SUGGESTION - FOR - / - WINDOW - / BUNNEL. STUDIO - / - CARNEGIE - HALL - / - CLEVELAND - O - / ECCLESIASTICAL DE
Inscriptions:
Inscribed on original presentation mount below window at center in graphite:"- SKETCH - NO. - 2874 - - SCALE - 1" = 1' 0" - / - SCHEME - A - - SUGGESTION - FOR - / - WINDOW - / BUNNEL. STUDIO - / - CARNEGIE - HALL - / - CLEVELAND - O - / ECCLESIASTICAL DEPT - / TIFFANY STUDIOS / - NEW - YORK - CITY - NY - / - APPROVED - BY - "
Provenance:
Dr. Egon Neustadt, New York City
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1923
eMuseum Object ID:
41569
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Design for a Stained-Glass Window with St. Anthony of Padua, for a Mausoleum in St. John's Cemetery
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1907
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on paper laid on board, overmatted, in original presentation mount with irregular ogive arch
Dimensions:
Image: 4 5/16 x 2 1/2 in. (11 x 6.4 cm)
Mat: 9 1/8 x 12 in. ( 23.2 x 30.5 cm )
Description:
Design drawing: A standing St. Francis holding the Christ child in landscape within a complex arcuated format; inscribed in yellow pigment in Gothic script in lower border.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Egon Neustadt
Object Number:
N84.139
Marks:
Signed at lower right in presentation mount in graphite: "Louis C. Tiffany"; mount inscribed below window: "- SKETCH - NO. - 4285 - - SCALE - 1" = 1' - 0" - / - SUGGESTION - FOR - / -WINDOW - / - IN -MAUSOLEUM - AT - / - ST. JOHN'S - CEMETERY - / - LOUIS
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in presentation mount in graphite: "Louis C. Tiffany"; mount inscribed below window: "- SKETCH - NO. - 4285 - - SCALE - 1" = 1' - 0" - / - SUGGESTION - FOR - / -WINDOW - / - IN -MAUSOLEUM - AT - / - ST. JOHN'S - CEMETERY - / - LOUIS - C. - TIFFANY - STUDIOS - / -NEW - YORK - CITY - N.Y. - / -MR -J- SIGNAIGI - / - NEW - YORK - / - APPROVED - BY -"
Provenance:
Dr. Egon Neustadt, New York City
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
41568
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Self-Portrait (1765-1815)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1805-15
Medium:
Conté crayon, gray wash, black, white, and pink chalk, and white gouache on brown paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. ( 24.8 x 20 cm )
Description:
Self-portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Fulton Cutting
Object Number:
1967.48
Marks:
signature: lower right: "R. F."
inscription: at bottom: "To Henry Eckford with my friendship / This portrait of myself / Rob Fulton"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in charcoal: "RF"; inscribed and signed at lower center: "To Henry Eckford with my friendship / this portrait of myself / Rob Fulton"
Gallery Label:
This portrait sketch is inscribed to Henry Eckford (1775-1832), the marine architect and shipbuilder who constructed the "Robert Fulton," which made the first successful voyage by steam power from New York to New Orleans and Havana in 1822. It was probably shown at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in New York in 1909.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
41527
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Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965); verso: sketch of same sitter
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Brown crayon and touches of graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 3/4 x 20 1/8 in. ( 65.4 x 51.1 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.184
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
Frankfurther was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and of the magazine "The New Republic." He was close friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was one of his advisors in New Deal policies. He served as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a scholar of its history.
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
41524
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1945
Medium:
Black crayon on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 14 3/4 in. ( 48.3 x 37.5 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.176
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black crayon: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait earned a Ph.D. in languages at Columbia University in 1904 and soon thereafter began to make a name for herself in literary circles. She wrote the biographical entries that accompanied Kaufman's sketches for "American Portraits: Pictures by Enit Kaufman" (1946).
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
41519
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John Jay Jackson (1800-1877), Sr.
Classification:
Date:
1864
Medium:
Black and brown ink on beige paper, laid on a larger sheet
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. ( 5.7 x 4.4 cm )
Mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number:
1904.9c
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in black ink: "1864"
Gallery Label:
John Jay Jackson graduated from West Point in 1818 and subsequently served in the army in Virginia, Florida, and Alabama. He resigned from the army in 1823, studied law, and became prosecuting attorney in the circuit supreme court. He served six terms as a representative to the Virginia legislature.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1864
eMuseum Object ID:
41496
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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1860
Medium:
Black ink wash on beige paper, laid on a larger sheet
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 6.7 x 5.7 cm )
Mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number:
1904.9a
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in black ink wash: "1860"
Gallery Label:
The subject, commonly known as "Stonewall" Jackson, was the second son of Jonathan Jackson and Julia Beckwith (Neale) Jackson of Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia). He graduated from West Point in 1846 and immediately distinguished himself in the Mexican War, rising to brevet major by 1848. He was made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, and died tragically--he was fired upon by his own men--returning from a successful rout near Chancellorsville.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
41495
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Elizabeth Middleton Izard (1787-1822)
Classification:
Date:
1835
Medium:
Black ink and wash and watercolor on Superfine London Board
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 2 3/16 in. ( 6 x 5.6 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Alexander Crawford Chenowith
Object Number:
1919.9
Marks:
signature: on back: "My Mother Elizabeth Middleton aged 17. / Taken from a painting done 1806. Copied at Brulington [?] August 1835 by Anne M. McEuen"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Elizabeth Middleton Izard"
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Middleton was the daughter of Anne (Manigault) and Thomas Middleton of South Carolina. She married Ralph Izard, the third surviving son of Alice (De Lancey) and Ralph Izard, in 1808.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41493
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Marbled Murrelet (Brachuramphus marmoratus), Havell plate no. 430
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Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1838
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and black ink with scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 3/8 x 21 1/8 in. (36.5 x 53.7 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Breeding plumage, left; winter plumage, right
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.430
Gallery Label:
The first North American nest of this seabird was discovered in 1974 in California, 150 feet above the ground in a Douglas fir tree
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1838
eMuseum Object ID:
41487
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Alexander McWhorter, D.D. (1734-1807): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1790-1800
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper stitched to a black paper underlay
Dimensions:
image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
sheet: 5 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( 13.7 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of male subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from cream paper stitched to rectangular black paper backing.
Object Number:
Z.2375
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Rev Dr M[c] Whorter"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at lower left: "Rev Dr McWhorter"
Gallery Label:
McWhorter was born in New Castle County, Delaware, the son of Scottish parents who had come to America about 1730. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1759 and in the years that followed held pastorates in Newark, New Jersey, in Boston, and in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
41477
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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