View of the State House, Boston, Massachusetts
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Black ink and wash over traces of graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 12 in. ( 23.5 x 30.5 cm )
mat: 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. ( 36.2 x 48.9 cm )
Object Number:
X.444
Marks:
inscription: lower center: "New State House, Boston."
inscription: lower right: "State House, Boston"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed lower left of center in graphite: "New State House Boston"; at lower center in black ink: "State House Boston"
Gallery Label:
The State House was designed by Charles Bulfinch and was erected in 1795.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
39513
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Training Ship Granite State, Hudson River, New York City
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1900-10
Medium:
Oil or casein on paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 10 in. ( 17.8 x 25.4 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Victor Wilbour
Object Number:
1915.32
Marks:
signature: lower right: "V. Wilbour"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in brown oil: "V.Wilbour"; verso inscribed
Gallery Label:
The naval training ship Granite State was originally comissioned in 1818 as the United States frigate New Hampshire. It was moored in the Hudson River at the foot of 97th Street, and on May 23, 1921, was burned to the water's edge.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
39507
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The Miser
Classification:
Medium:
Black ink and wash on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 7 7/8 in. ( 25.4 x 20 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Rodman C. Rockefeller
Object Number:
1969.64
Marks:
inscription: lower center: "The Miser"
signature: lower right: "P.Vanderlyn, Fecit"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right outside image in black ink: "P. VANDERLYN. Fecit."; at center below image: "THE MISER" below in two columns: "From ample Bags ye. MISER pours his Store, / And counts the hoarded Guineas o'er & o'er, / With curious Eyes each splendid Piece surveys, / And then in Piles the shining Mammon lays. / Gold, glittering, precious, yellow Gold! he cries / Thee more than Father, Friend or Child prize. / When Folly frowns thou bendest Wisdoms knee, / And proud Ambition bares its Head to thee; / Foul thou makest fair, old young & wrong right, / Base noble, Cowards valiant, and black white / Thou art the universal good which all pursue. / The Christian, Pagan, Turch, & faithless Jew."
Gallery Label:
Beneath the picture is this verse, in two columns: "From ample Bags ye Miser pours his Store, And counts the hoarded Guineas o'er & o'er. With curious Eyes each splendid Piece Surveys, And then in Piles the shining Mammon lays. Gold, glitt'ring, precious, yellow Gold, he cries. Three more than Father, Friend or Childn I prize. When Folly frowns thou bendest Wisdoms knee, And proud ambition bares its Head to thee; Foul thou makest fair, old, young & wrong right, Base noble, Cowards valiant..."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
39496
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View from the Northern Railroad, Northvale, New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1890s
Medium:
Watercolor on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 x 10 1/8 in. ( 15.2 x 25.7 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1944.399
Marks:
inscription: verso, pencil: "On Northern Railroad/near Northvale, N.J."
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at center in black crayon: "on Northern Railroad / near Northvale, N.J."
Gallery Label:
Wallace rode the Northern Railroad from Nyack, New York, to his office in New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1929
eMuseum Object ID:
39495
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Illustration of the Legend of the Spuyten Duyvil
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1939
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 13 7/8 in. ( 53.3 x 35.2 cm )
mat: 22 x 15 7/8 in. ( 55.9 x 40.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Stuyvesant Van Veen
Object Number:
1941.1227
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Stuyvesant Van Veen, 39"
inscription: lower center: "The Legend of Spuyten Duyvil/This Sketch not to be used in part or entirely without Consend of Artist/by Stuyvesant Van Veen of New York City, 24 W. 96/Mural Artists Gu
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Stuyvesant Van Veen 39"; along lower edge outside image: "THE LEGEND OF SPUYTEN DUYVIL / THIS SKETCH NOT TO BE USED IN PART OR ENTIRELY WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE ARTIST / BY STUYVESANT VAN VEEN OF NEW YORK CITY 24 W 96 / MURAL ARTISTS GUILD DECEMBER 10 1939."
Gallery Label:
This humorous sketch based on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of New York depicts Peter Stuyvesant's brash trumpeter Anthony Van Corlaer vowing to cross Spuyten Duyvil Creek at northern Manhattan Island "in spite of the devil." From this incident, according to Irving, the creek gained its name. Van Veen's sketch was for a proposed mural in the lobby of an apartment house on Seaman Avenue below Baker Field in the Inwood section near the creek. The mural was never executed.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1939
eMuseum Object ID:
39492
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Exterior View of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1924-25
Medium:
Black and white pastel and charcoal on blue paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. ( 31.1 x 46.4 cm )
mat: 16 x 22 in. ( 40.6 x 55.9 cm )
Object Number:
X.298
Marks:
signature: lower left: "WHS"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in black pastel: "W.H. S."
Gallery Label:
This is part of a series of twenty-one signed and dated drawings of the Morris-Jumel mansion.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
39488
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Study for an Illustration in "Kerry Kangaroo"
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1957
Medium:
Black ink, gray wash, black crayon, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 10 in. ( 31.8 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Drawing of kangaroo, crying koala and a Butterfly, study for "Kerry Kangaroo," p. 20.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Oscar Fabres through the estate of Francine Salmon
Object Number:
2000.842
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in graphite: "20[encircled] / b & w"
Gallery Label:
Oscar Fabres (1894-1959) was a Chilean artist and illustrator who lived in New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1957
eMuseum Object ID:
39485
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oval Vignette View of Kaaterskill Falls, Catskill Mountains, New York
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1853
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite with scratching out on heavy paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 7 3/8 in. (25.4 x 18.7 cm)
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Chemung County Historical Society
Object Number:
1975.37
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower center of image in brown ink: "WILLIAM. T. RICHARDS."; inscribed at lower left of sheet: "Kaaterskill Falls. / Catskill Mountains. / New York."; verso inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "Robert P. Smith / 17 Minor Street"
Gallery Label:
A pencil sketch by Richard of Cauterskill (Kaaterskill) Falls (15 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches), dated August 16, 1853, is in the M. & M. Karolik Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Provenance:
Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, New York
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
39475
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View of the East River and FDR Drive Looking South, New York City
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1944
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 7/8 x 24 3/8 in. ( 53 x 61.9 cm )
mat: 28 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. ( 71.8 x 81.9 x 3.2 cm )
Description:
Landscape: This is a view south along the east shore of Manhattan Island. The East River Drive is at the right.
Credit Line:
Gift of George Z. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1944.359
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Florence Whitehill"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in gray watercolor: "Florence Whitehill"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1944
eMuseum Object ID:
39472
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View of Yonkers, New York
Classification:
Date:
mid-19th century
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 14 in. ( 25.4 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
This is a view southwest with a mill pond on the course of the Nepperhan River (Saw Mill River) in the foreground, north of Elm Street. The Hudson River and the Palisades in New Jersey are seen in the right distance.
Credit Line:
Norvin H. Green Fund
Object Number:
1955.304
Marks:
inscriptions: not signed. upper left: Yonker's N.Y.; above a house at left of picture: Mr. Copcutt's House
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "Yonkers, N.Y. --"; to the right: "Mr. Copcutt's House"; various color annotations
Gallery Label:
The house indicated at the left is that of John Copcutt, identifed in the Westchester County directories as the proprietor of a mahogany saw mill on the Nepperhan. Copcutt's house was situated west of Nepperhan Avenue and north of Elm Street and overlooked the river and mill pond. It is indicated on the plan of the city of Yonkers, Second Ward, in Beers' Westchester County atlas of 1872 (pp.26-27). Whitefield resided in Yonkers in the early 1850s.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1892
eMuseum Object ID:
39471
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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