Garraway's Coffee House, Exchange Alley, New York City
Classification:
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Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and black ink on paper laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. ( 18.4 x 22.5 cm )
mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1945.554
Marks:
inscription: lower left: "W. H. W."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left inside image in graphite: "WH.W."; signed on card at lower right: "W.H.W"; inscribed at lower left on card "Garraways Coffee House in Exchange Alley / This is the original building but the lower / story front has been somewhat changed -- / Building now gone --"
Gallery Label:
A note by the artist states that this is the original building but that the lower part "has been somewhat changed." The building is now gone.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1929
eMuseum Object ID:
39193
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Old Houses, Northeast Corner of Hudson and Watts Streets,
Classification:
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Date:
1899
Medium:
Watercolor, brown ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. ( 21.6 x 28.6 cm )
mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1945.575
Marks:
inscription: lower left: "Hudson and/northeast corner of Hudson + Wats St."
signature and date: lower right: "WH W/99"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in brown watercolor: "W.H.W/99"; at lower left in brown watercolor over graphite: "north east Corner of Hudson and Watts St."
Gallery Label:
A note by the artist states that the houses were still standing in 1917.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1899
eMuseum Object ID:
39192
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Copy of a View of New York City from the South in 1773
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Date:
c. 1890s
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 15 1/4 in. ( 25.4 x 38.7 cm )
mat: 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. ( 36.2 x 48.9 cm )
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Harry Shaw Newman
Object Number:
1945.572
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left outside image in graphite: "New York from the south 1750."
Gallery Label:
This was copied from an engraving in the Atlantic Neptune. The engraving was prepared and published for the use of the Royal Navy by the British Admiralty in 1763-1784 under the direction of J.F.W. Des Barres.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1773
eMuseum Object ID:
39191
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West Side of Washington Street at Corner of Johnson Street in 1848-50, Brooklyn, New York
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Classification:
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Date:
1903
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink and wash, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. ( 14.9 x 27.3 cm )
mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1945.569
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "Washington St SW Corner Johnson 1850"
inscription: verso
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in black ink: "Washington St. S.W. corner Johnson 1850"; verso inscribed at center: "Sketch of West Side of Washington St. Brooklyn corner of Johnson / in 1848=1850. The large house on the corner was the residence of / Mr W.H. Wallace. The house was built about 1843 by a Mr Cook / who lived in it for about two years. my father lived in it eight years / The neighborhood was then sub-urban. Many small cottages with gardens / being on the east side of the street, and had be
Gallery Label:
A note written on the back by William H. Wallace in 1903 reads: "Sketch of west side of Washington St., Brooklyn, corner of Johnson in 1848-1850. The large house on the corner was the residence of Mr. W.H. Wallace. The house was built about 1843 by a Mr. Cook who lived in it for about two years. My father lived in it eight years. The neighborhood was then suburban...The Wallace residence was sold in 1853, and became an English chop house. Several fortunes were made in it..."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
39187
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View of Broadway with St. Paul's Chapel, New York City
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Date:
c. 1809-13
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink over on paper, laid on board and varnished
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 3/4 x 36 in. ( 65.4 x 91.4 cm )
mat: 31 x 41 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 78.7 x 105.4 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
St. Paul's Chapel is the dominant building in this view.
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number:
1897.5
Gallery Label:
This is a companion view to Strickland's view of Broadway, showing Grace and Trinity Churches. I.N.P. Stokes points out that the date of this picture must be between 1809, when Grace Church was completed, and 1814-1815, when according to the New York directories, the engraver John Scoles, (whose sign--"Scoles, Egraver"--appears over the doorway on the house, at the left) moved to 67 Bowery. Prior to its acquisition by the Society this watercolor was badly torn and covered with a coat of varnish.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1809
eMuseum Object ID:
39184
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View of Broadway with Grace and Trinity Churches, New York City
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Date:
c. 1809-13
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink over on paper, laid on board and varnished
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 1/4 x 35 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. ( 64.1 x 89.5 x 3.8 cm )
mat: 31 x 41 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 78.7 x 105.4 x 3.8 cm
Description:
In this view of fashionable lower Broadway, the large house on the left was the residence of John R. Livingston until 1816. From 1817-to 1824 the United States Branch Bank occupied the house, and it then became a boardinghouse. Also depicted are Trinity Church and Grace Church.
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number:
1897.4
Inscriptions:
signature: lower right (monogram in railing): "W.S."
Gallery Label:
Prior to its aquisition by the Society, this view was badly torn and mended and covered with a heavy coat of varnish.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1809
eMuseum Object ID:
39181
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Unidentified United States Frontier Military Post
Classification:
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Date:
c.1880
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on treated surface of prepared fine linen with red selvage
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 3/4 x 20 5/8 in. ( 37.5 x 52.4 cm )
mat: 18 x 24 in. ( 45.7 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1925.194
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1886
eMuseum Object ID:
39179
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View of the Bad Lands Near Tongue River, Montana Territory
Classification:
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Date:
c. 1877-82
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 22 in. ( 35.6 x 55.9 cm )
mat: 22 x 28 in. ( 55.9 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1925.183
Marks:
signature: lower right: "drawn from Nature by H.Stieffel/Co K,5th U.S. Inf."
inscription: lower center: "View of the "Bad Lands" near Tongue River, M.T."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right outside image in black ink: "drawn from Nature by H. Stieffel / Co. K. 5th. U.S. Inf."; at lower center outside image: "View of the Bad Lands near Tongue River, M. T."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1877
eMuseum Object ID:
39176
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Caricature of a Man Before a Pyramid
Classification:
Medium:
Graphite on gray-brown paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. ( 29.2 x 24.4 cm )
mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Mrs. William F. Bevan, granddaughter of Thomas Pritchard Rossiter
Object Number:
1956.75.2
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
39170
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View of the Custom House, New York City: Study for an Aquatint
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Date:
c. 1796-99
Medium:
Black ink and wash with touches of graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 12 5/16 in. (22.2 x 31.3 cm)
mat: 14 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. (37.5 x 48.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1910.39
Provenance:
Edwin Babcock Holden; American Art Galleries Sale April 21, 1910, no. 2016
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1796
eMuseum Object ID:
39168
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