Wrecked Boat North River and 73rd Street, New York City
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1880
Medium:
Graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. ( 14 x 21.6 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Marine detail
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1955.124
Marks:
inscription: lower left: "Old Centre Board B[oa]t wreck in sand/73rd St. North River/May 4th 1880"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Sand pile grey / Old centre Board Bt wreck in sand / 73d St North River. touches of bluish grey top of timbers. / May 4th 1880"; various annotations in wreck
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
38541
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Waterfall near High Bridge, Manhattan, New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1879
Medium:
Graphite and white chalk in gray-green paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. ( 27.3 x 37.5 cm )
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1955.107
Marks:
inscription: Lower right: "Waterfall near High Bridge/ No 3 Manhattan Island/April 21st 1879"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right inside image in graphite: "Waterfall near High Bridge / no 3 Manhattan Island / April 21st 1879"; at upper center outside image: "14-19 or[?]"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1879
eMuseum Object ID:
38537
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Cottages at Creek Locks, Ulster County, New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1880
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/8 x 10 in. ( 33.3 x 25.4 cm )
mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Architecture/genre
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriski
Object Number:
1947.376
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm. R. Miller 1880"
inscription: upper: "No [blank] 1000 Gems/"Cottages at Creek Locks, Ulster Cy."/Composed Sepr. 26th 1870/9 x 7"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left inside image in black ink: "Wm. R. Miller. / 1880."; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "No 1000 Gems. / 'Cottages at Creek Locks. Ulster Cy.' / Composed Sepr. 26th 1870 / 9 x 7"; various annotations inside and outside image
Gallery Label:
Intended for the 1,000 Gems of American landscape.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
38526
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Moonlight, Catskill Clove, Dogs Hole Falls, New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1880
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. ( 27.3 x 19 cm )
mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriski
Object Number:
1947.375
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm.R. Miller/ July 1880
inscription: upper: "No [blank] 1000 Gems (5 x 4)/"Moonlight, Catskill Clove"/(Dogs Hole Fall)/Composed Sepr. 9th 1874/8 x 6"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left inside image in black ink: "Wm R. Miller. / July. 1880."; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "No 1000 Gems. (5 x 4) / 'Moonlight, Catskill Clove.' / (Dogs Hole Fall) / Composed Sepr. 9th 1874. / 8 x 6"; various annotations inside and outside image
Gallery Label:
Intended for the 1,000 Gems of American landscape.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
38525
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An Ulster County Waterfall, High Falls, New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1873
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. ( 27.3 x 19 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriski
Object Number:
1947.371
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right: W.R. Miller, 1873.
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right inside image in black ink: "W. R. Miller. / 1873."; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "No 1000 Gems / An Ulster County Waterfall / (High Falls) / Composed Augt. 14th 1873. / 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 Pt 8 x 6"; various annotations outside image
Gallery Label:
Intended for the 1,000 Gems of American landscape.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1873
eMuseum Object ID:
38522
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Broadway Looking South from Worth Street, New York City
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1879
Medium:
Black ink, collage, graphite, and touches of white gouache on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. ( 21 x 31.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Emil Herman Sauer
Object Number:
1917.10
Marks:
inscription: verso: "Broadway Broadway, south from Worth St. Ca 1879"
Inscriptions:
Various publication notations on the verso of card
Gallery Label:
This is a view from the roof of the New York Life Insurance Company Building at the corner of Leonard Street. In the distance, at the south end of City Hall Park, is the United States Post Office erected between 1869 and 1875 and demolished in 1939. This view was published by Magnus as one of his "100 Letter-head paintings of New York" and "48 Note Size Views" for sale by stationers and booksellers (copy in Print Room N-YHS). It was copied from a photograph.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1879
eMuseum Object ID:
38518
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View of Battery Park with the Castle Garden Immigration Depot, New York City
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1885
Medium:
Black ink, white lead pigment, and graphite on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. ( 22.2 x 34.6 cm )
mat: 14 3/4 x 17 3/8 in. ( 37.5 x 44.1 cm )
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1910.43
Marks:
label: upper left: "BATTERY PARK and Castle Garden, seen from Battery Pl foot of West St"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center outside image in graphite: "--About 1885 --"; various publication annotations
Gallery Label:
This is a view south from Battery Place at the foot of West Street toward the park and New York Harbor. Castle Garden, seen in the center, was leased by the United States Immigration Department in 1855 and was fitted up as an immigration depot. Nearly two thirds of the immigrants who entered the United States between 1850 and 1890--7,690,606--were received at Castle Garden.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
38516
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Catskill, New York
Classification:
Medium:
Black and brown ink and graphite on tracing paper mounted on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. ( 9.5 x 15.9 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1917.34
Marks:
inscriptions: lower right: A.P. Fecit;lower left.B.T. sc.; title, lower center: 1797/Sketch of the Town of Kaats-kill, Hudson's River
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right outside image in black ink: "A. P. Fecit."; at lower left outside image: "B.T. sc."; at lower center outside image: "1797."; below at center: "SKETCH of the TOWN of KAATS-KILL, HUDSON'S RIVER".
Gallery Label:
This tracing was taken from an engraving by Benjamin Tanner (1775-1848) which was published as a frontispiece in The New York Times Magazine, or Literary Repository, September 1797. The descriptive text which accompanies the plate in the Magazine states that "The plate annexed represents a view of Kaat's Kill, in the state of New-York...The mountains in this vicinity...it is said, furnish many thing for the gratification of the curious."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
38505
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Arrival of Count D'Estaing's Squadron at the Mouth of the Delaware River
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1778
Medium:
Black ink and wash with collage on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 16 1/8 x 1 in. ( 28.6 x 41 x 2.5 cm )
mat: 20 1/2 x 25 x 1 in. ( 52.1 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Marine
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.166
Marks:
inscription: upper center: "Campagne du Vice-Admiral Cte d'Estaing en Amerique, Commandant une Escadre de 12 Vaisseaux et 4 fregattes, Sortie de Toulon le 13 avril 1778. No. 1."
inscription: lower: "L'Escadre Commandee par Mr. le Cte d'Estaing arrive a l
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper center in collaged rectangle in brown ink: "Campagne du Vice-Amiral[sic] Cte. d'Estaing / en Amêrique, Commandant une Escadre de / 12 Vaisseaux et 4 frégattes, Sortie de Toulon / le 13 avril 1778. No. 1"; below image: "L'Escadre Commanée par Mr. le Cte. d'Estaing arrive... à l"Embouchure de la Délaware le 7 juillet 1778, la Frégate anglaise la Mairmaide de 28 canons sort / de cette Rivière, et cherche en vain son salut dans la Fuite. / A. Rive droite de la Délaware. D. la Frég
Gallery Label:
On April 13, 1778, a formidable French squadron commanded by Count d'Estaing sailed for America from Toulon. This is the first of a series of drawings by Pierre Ozanne, who accompanied the fleet as an official artist and recorded the incidents of the French naval operations. In this view of the arrival of the fleet at the mouth of the Delaware River on July 7, 1778, Ozanne has also depicted the attempt of the British frigate Mermaid to escape capture by the French ships.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1778
eMuseum Object ID:
38504
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Old Shanties, Corner of 11th. Avenue and West 68th Street, New York City
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1894
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and gouache on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. ( 23.5 x 22.2 cm )
mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. ( 48.9 x 36.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Susie Cruikshank Snyder
Object Number:
1925.171
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "L. Oram, March 94"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in brown watercolor: '"MARCH / L ORAM 94"
Gallery Label:
A similar illustration by Fernand Harvey Lungren (1857-1932), 1879, was published in Scriber's Magazine, October 1880, p. 857, with an article on "Shantytown." The Society also owns a pencil sketch by Lungren (1930.71) of shanties on 69th Street, 1879. Eleventh Avenue is now West End Avenue.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
38502
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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