This portrait was copied by the baroness from an uninscribed watercolor and pencil study by Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/8-1839), secretary to the Russian consul-general in the United States from 1811 to 1813. Svinin's drawing is, like the preceding, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a copy, in reverse, of an original study of a Chief of the Little Osage by Charles Balthazar Fevret de Saint-Memin (q.v.), in the Society's collectin.

This is a portrait of a sitting Indian girl. it has been suggested that she is a Mohawk but, judging from the baron's memoires, she might be a Stockbridge Indian. Her earrings, her typically Iroquis moccasins and her physiognomy all suggest that she is an Indian. Such a stiff hat, however, often with a silver band, was much in favor at Onondaga later in the century. Another portrait, showing the girl's head and face is also in the Society's collection.

This portrait was copied by the baroness from an uninscribed watercolor and chalk study (6 3/8 x 8 1/4) by Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/8-1839), a Russian artist who served as secretary to the Russian consul-general in the United States from 1811 to 1813, in the Drawings Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This is probably the earliest portrait of the famous Seneca Indian chief Red Jacket (sa-go-ye-wat-ha ca. 1758-1830) drawn by the baroness in July 1807 during her journey to upstate New York. Knife in hand, the Indian appears to be hodling a piece of buckskin, possibly the vamp of a moccasin, of which the baron wrote in his memoirs: "The Chief Read Jaret [Red Jacket?] is no better housed than the rest; he was busy making foot-gear of deer skin called mocassins..."

This study is on the same sheet of paper as the baroness's view of Mount Merino Summer House at Ballston Spa.

In his memoirs the Baron Hyde de Neuville wrote: "The Hudson River is magnificent, truly imposing and its banks are as picturesque as they are romantic." This is a view of the Highlands south toward West Point. At the right is Butter Hill, now known as Storm King. Breakneck Mountain is at the left.

In 1759 this area at the extreme southern end of Lake Champlain in upper New York took the name of Skenesborough (now Whitehall) in honor of Major Philip Skene, a British army officer who settled here with about thirty families and obtained patents to some 37,000 acres. Along with his son, Skene acted as guide for Borgoyne's army in 1777, and he lost everything as a result of his support of the British ccown.

This view shows the wooden wing at the north end of the house which was not part of the original construction of ca. 1783. The wing was erected in the nineteenth century and was later removed.