Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), Havell plate no. 331
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1832-33
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, gouache, and black ink with scratching out and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 24 x 36 7/8 in. (61 x 93.7 cm)
Mat: 39 x 53 in. (99.1 x 134.6 cm)
Description:
Female, left; male, right; Havell Plate 331 has a view of Cohoes Falls, New York, where Audubon was in the summer of 1824; see also 1863.17.401, which has a notation to include a NY waterfall.
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.331
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "Goosander --"; at upper center: "Male 1. F. 2."; birds numbered right and left respectively: "1"; "2"
Gallery Label:
Havell plate version, background includes a view of the falls at Cohoes in upper New York State
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
21705
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Portrait of a Cherokee Man
Classification:
Date:
1820
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
image: 11 x 7 in. ( 27.9 x 17.8 cm )
mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
sheet: 16 x 11 1/2 in. ( 40.6 x 29.2 cm )
Description:
Figure
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1953.218
Marks:
Inscription: lower, ink: "Cherokee/ (1820) M.r Martin"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Cherokee / 1820 Mr Martin"
Gallery Label:
In 1820 Baron and Barones Hyde de Neuville lived in Washington, and there is no evidence to suggest that they were anywhere near Cherokee country. "Mr. Martin" is not identified.
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
21692
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Scenes from the American Revolution: The Philadelphia City Troop with the British Flags; verso: Mounted Soldiers
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1910
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, black ink, and graphite on beige paper laid on board; graphite, gouache, and watercolor on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/4 x 29 7/8 in. ( 54 x 75.9 cm )
mat: 30 x 40 in. ( 76.2 x 101.6 cm )
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Charles MacKubin Lefferts
Object Number:
1923.124
Gallery Label:
This is an unfinished study, of which a similar version was painted by Lefferts for Rodman Wanamaker. The captured British flagss from Yorktown are being brought into Philadelphia under escort of the famous Light Horse troop for presentation to the Continental Congress, November 3, 1781.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1923
eMuseum Object ID:
21671
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Genesee Falls, Rochester, New York: Study for an Engraving
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1836-37
Medium:
Brown ink wash with scratching out on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 5/8 x 7 3/16 in. (11.7 x 18.3 cm)
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number:
1900.9
Marks:
Verso inscribed at right center in brown ink: "The Genesee Falls / Rochester"
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at right center in brown ink: "The Genesee Falls / Rochester"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
21656
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Powder Horn: The Africanus, Horn with Gourd Bulb (F-57)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1891
Medium:
Watercolor, black and brown ink and wash, gouache, graphite, lead white, and blue, gold, and bronze metallic pigment, with heavy glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 9/16 x 15 5/16 in. ( 31.9 x 38.9 cm )
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Object Number:
1907.36.453
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom right: Canajoharie N.Y. Rufus A. Grider July 1891.
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in black ink: "The AFRICANUS...This beautiful Powder Horn was made in Africa. / A GOURD was used to increase its size, the / extension was covered with leather...Rufus A. Grider July 1891."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
21645
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Unidentified Woman: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
c. 1835
Medium:
Black ink and white gouache with bronzing on pale pink paper
Dimensions:
frame: 6 7/8 x 6 1/8 x 1 in. ( 17.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm )
image height: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; painted in black, ochre and gray on cream; rectangular wood frame, original to silhouette.
Object Number:
Z.2530
Marks:
signature: below bust: "Field 2 Strand"
label: on back of frame: "BY APPOINTMENT. / J. FIELD, / Profilist / To their Majesties & H.R.H. the Princess Augusta, / No. 2, STRAND, LONDON. / Two Doors East from Northumberland House. / Upwards of Thirty Years s
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left: "J. Field 2 Strand"; printed label on verso: "BY APPOINTMENT. / J. FIELD, / Profilist / To their Majesties & H.R.H. the Princess Augusta, / No. 2, STRAND, LONDON. / Two Doors East from Northumberland House. / Miers & Field..."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
21588
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"Novum Amsterodamum" (New Amsterdam, New Netherlands)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1650
Medium:
Watercolor and brown and black ink over black chalk on ivory paper, laid on four other layered sheets
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 13/16 x 19 1/16 in. (14.8 x 48.4 cm)
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Gift of C.E. Detmold
Object Number:
1881.2
Marks:
Inscribed inside image within banner in black ink: NOVUM AMSTERODAMUM [partially relettered]; along lower left border inside image: Faer t [Paer t; Vaer t; In’t?] Schip Lydia [Leyden?] door LaurEns Hermans Zn. Block. Ao. 1650 [damaged and relettered]; o
Inscriptions:
Inscribed inside image within banner in black ink: NOVUM AMSTERODAMUM [partially relettered]; along lower left border inside image: Faer t [Paer t; Vaer t; In’t?] Schip Lydia [Leyden?] door LaurEns Hermans Zn. Block. Ao. 1650 [damaged and relettered]; old paper label now attached to reverse of frame inscribed in a similar hand in brown ink: In t Schip Lydia bc LaurEns Hermans Zn [superscript
with two lines below] Block / An 1650
Gallery Label:
This is the earliest original view of New York owned by the Society.
Provenance:
Unidentified Dealer, The Hague, 1879; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 1880
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1650
eMuseum Object ID:
21581
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David Crockett (1786-1836)
Classification:
Date:
1834
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite touches of gouache and selective glazing on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. ( 24.8 x 19.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait: Frontiersman Davy Crockett, in formal dress. Written in brown ink "I leave this rule for others when I am dead/ Be always sure, you are right, then go, a-head/ David Crockett". This drawing was sent by the artist to Asher B. Durand as the basis for an engraving.
Credit Line:
Gift of John Durand
Object Number:
X.31
Marks:
inscriptions: Inscribed at bottom: I leave this rule for others when I am dead./ Be always sure you are right, then go ahead/ David Crockett.
Inscriptions:
Inscribed bust portrait in brown ink (over identical inscription): " I leave this rule, for others when I am dead / Be always Sure, you are right then go a head. / David Crockett"
Gallery Label:
This watercolor portrait of frontiersman "Davy" Crockett was the basis of an engraving by Asher B. Durand, an impression of which is owned by the Society. Correspondence between De Rose and Durand indicates that the former painted the subject from life in Washington in June, 1834 (letters in Archives of American Art).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
21577
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Tea Room in the Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City; verso: view of a room with a desk
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1924
Medium:
Charcoal with stumping and black and white pastel on blue-gray paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 18 1/8 in. ( 31.1 x 46 cm )
mat: 16 x 22 in. ( 40.6 x 55.9 cm )
Object Number:
X.314
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "W.H. Shelton/1924"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed twice at lower left and right in black pastel: "W. H. Shelton / 1924"
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:
1924
eMuseum Object ID:
21469
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Insignia of the American Revolution: 40th Continental Infantry Regiment in 1777
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1912
Medium:
Gouache, black ink, and graphite on board cut out
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 12 x 16 in. ( 2.5 x 30.5 x 40.6 cm )
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Charles MacKubin Lefferts
Object Number:
INV.14735
Inscriptions:
Annotations throughout
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
21440
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