Dance of the Chiefs (Sioux)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1866-68
Medium: 
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Description: 
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: a group of elderly chiefs, some with full feathered headdresses, gathered to dance with spears, hand drums and rattles for the first time in many years in honor of Catlin's visit. Catlin sketches on the right next to a drummer, while women and children view the dance in the background
Credit Line: 
Purchased by the Society
Object Number: 
1872.23.155
Marks: 
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 155. / 'Dance of the Chief's' (Sioux)"; at lower border outside image in black ink: "374 372 373"
Provenance: 
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1868
eMuseum Object ID: 
33627
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Buffalo Wallow

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1866-68
Medium: 
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Description: 
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: several bison (Plains Buffalo) roll in a mud or dust patch
Credit Line: 
Purchased by the Society
Object Number: 
1872.23.144
Marks: 
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 144. / Buffalo wallow."
Provenance: 
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1868
eMuseum Object ID: 
33626
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Presbyterian Church, Second Avenue and 81st Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1907
Medium: 
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions: 
image size: 4 3/8 x 5 3/4 in. ( 11.1 x 14.6 cm ) mounted: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 27.3 x 23.5 cm )
Description: 
Architecture
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Object Number: 
Z.2016.17b
Marks: 
dated: lower left: "MARCH-1-1907." inscribed in ink: on obverse: "PRESBT. CHURCH. / BAY RIDGE / SECOND AV. 81st ST."
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower left in black ink: "MARCH-1-1907."; at lower center: "PRESBT. CHURCH. / BAY RIDGE. SECOND AV 81ST ST."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1907
eMuseum Object ID: 
33614
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Church, Flushing, Queens, New York

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1897
Medium: 
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions: 
image size: 5 7/8 x 8 in. ( 14.9 x 20.3 cm ) mounted: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 27.3 x 23.5 cm )
Description: 
Architecture
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Object Number: 
Z.2016.17a
Marks: 
dated: lower left: "MAY 31/97." inscribed in pencil: on obverse: "OLD QUAKER CHURCH / FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND. / BUILT 1695."
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "OLD QUAKER CHURCH / FLUSHING LONG ISLAND, MAY. 31/97. BUILT. 1695."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1897
eMuseum Object ID: 
33612
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Enthralled Schoolmaster (Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel) from Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1893
Medium: 
Watercolor on paper laid on board
Dimensions: 
Overall: 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. ( 29.2 x 19 cm ) mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description: 
Figures
Credit Line: 
Purchase, Art Fund
Object Number: 
1951.439
Marks: 
Signed: at lower right: "G. H. Boughton" Inscribed: in pencil, on reverse: "The Enthralled Schoolmaster, Sleepy Hollow."
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower left in gray watercolor: "G H Boughton"; verso of board inscribed at angle in graphite: "The Enthralled Schoolmaster / Sleepy Hollow"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1893
eMuseum Object ID: 
33607
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

North Side of 86th Street West of Park Avenue (Formerly Slover and Owen Residences), New York City

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1908
Medium: 
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions: 
image size: 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. ( 11.4 x 14.6 cm ) mounted: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 27.3 x 23.5 cm )
Description: 
Architecture
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Object Number: 
Z.2016.3a
Marks: 
dated: lower right: "JAN. 18-08." inscribed in ink: on obverse: "N.S. 86th ST. FIRST HOUSES - No. 73 / WEST OF PARK AVENUE / FORMERLY SLOVER AND OWEN / RESIDENCES. / IN 1908" inscribed in pencil: lower right: "ORIGINAL."
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower left in black ink: "N. S. 86th St. FIRST HOUSES NO. 73. / WEST OF PARK AVENUE / IN . 1908 FORMERY. SLOVER. AND. OWEN / RESIDENCES."; above in graphite: "73"; at lower right in black ink: "JAN. 18 - 08."; below in graphite: "ORIGINAL"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1908
eMuseum Object ID: 
33594
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Julia Malvina Anderson (1801-c. 1870)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1805
Medium: 
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in. ( 4.8 x 4.8 cm ) mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Description: 
Portrait
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number: 
X.112
Inscriptions: 
Verso inscribed in brown ink: "Julia Malvina Anderson / Aged 4 years - / 1805"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1805
eMuseum Object ID: 
33592
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The New Grand Central Station, New York City

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Medium: 
Watercolor, gouache, and black ink over graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. ( 69.8 x 52.1 cm )
Description: 
Architecture
Credit Line: 
Gift of Arthur A. Jones
Object Number: 
1947.67
Marks: 
signed: on front lower right: "Ernest Albert"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at the lower right in watercolor: "ERNEST ALBERT"; verso inscribed at upper left in graphite: "The New Grand Central / # 18"
Provenance: 
Artist's estate
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1922
eMuseum Object ID: 
33591
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

George Nugent Temple Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1753-1813)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1782-1784
Medium: 
Pastel over graphite on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. ( 49.5 x 33.7 cm )
Description: 
Portrait after the print by William Sadler after the painting by Robert Hunter
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. John H. Untiedt
Object Number: 
1956.120
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower center in red pastel over graphite: "Earl Temple / March(?)..." Signed and inscribed at lower right in red pastel over graphite: "P. Adams. Pinx.t"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1784
eMuseum Object ID: 
33588
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Shipwrecked Mother and Child, Folio no.14 in the John Ludlow Morton Album

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1829
Medium: 
Watercolor, black ink and gouache with scratching out on paper, bound into album
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. ( 8.9 x 13 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number: 
1944.379
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower left inside framing lines in black ink: "F.S. Agate 1829"; inscribed below image in brown ink: "'For her pale arm a babe had prest, / With such a wreathing grasp / Billows had dash'd oe'r that fond breast / Yet not undone the clasp. / Her very tresses had been flung / To wrap the fair child's form / Where still there wet long streamers clung / All tangled by the storm / And beautiful midst that wild scene / Gleam'd up the boy's dead face.' (Mrs. Hemans' Poems)"
Provenance: 
John Ludlow Morton, New York City; Harriet E. Morton Ellison; Emily Ellison Post, Jackson Heights, New York City
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1829
eMuseum Object ID: 
33589
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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