The Soap-Locks ("The Bowery Boys")

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1840-44
Medium: 
Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper, once bound into an album
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 7/16 x 14 7/8 in. ( 26.5 x 37.8 cm ) mat: 13 7/8 x 18 in. ( 35.2 x 45.7 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number: 
1980.33
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at the lower center in brown ink: "The Soap-locks"; at lower right margin in graphite: "14"
Provenance: 
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leech, London
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1848
eMuseum Object ID: 
18883
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Broadway at Fifth Avenue from the Flatiron Building, New York City

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1905
Medium: 
Black ink over graphite on Bristol Board mounted on heavier board
Dimensions: 
Overall: 34 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. ( 87 x 54.6 cm )
Description: 
Cityscape
Credit Line: 
Gift of Thomas W. Dewart c/o C.W.H.-Merlis Inc.
Object Number: 
1958.73
Marks: 
Signed and dated: at lower left, front (signed over abradeo area).
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower left in black ink: "Vernon Howe Bailey / -- 05"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1905
eMuseum Object ID: 
18873
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

View of St. Mark's Place with the Cooper Union Institute and the Elevated Railroad, New York City

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1878-90
Medium: 
Black ink, collage, white gouache, and graphite on paper, laid on card
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. ( 22.5 x 31.4 cm )
Description: 
Showing the Cooper Union Institute, at third avenue and 7th street, also showing the elevated railroad, third avenue line.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number: 
1987.29
Marks: 
inscription: :"[miscellaneous markings]"
Inscriptions: 
Verso of card inscribed and signed at upper right in graphite: "Chas Magnus / (1878 --pasted up for sessions[?] / 1879 or 1880 with end of / Cooper Union)"; many publication annotations in image and on card
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
18864
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sixth Avenue Looking North from 9th Street, Showing Jefferson Market, the District Court House, and the Elevated Railroad, New York City

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1880
Medium: 
Black ink, collage, white gouache, and graphite on paper, laid on card
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 13/16 x 13 3/8 in. ( 24.9 x 34 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number: 
1987.28
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed along upper edge outside image in black ink: "Sixth Avenue, West side, N & from incl. Greenwich ave. Jefferson Market .", various publication annotations on the verso of the card
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
18862
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Liberty Square, Portchester, New York

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1935
Medium: 
Black ink over graphite with scratching out and touches of gouache on board
Dimensions: 
Overall: 22 x 15 in. ( 55.9 x 38.1 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of Thomas W. Dewart
Object Number: 
1981.45
Marks: 
Signed: at lower right:" Inscribed: "Portchester 1935"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Vernon Howe Bailey / Portchester 1935"; at lower left outside image in graphite: "Portchester. Liberty Square"; verso inscribed along upper border vertically: "Hempdal[?] / Station Plaza / Formal Garden / Bush House / Hospital -- / High School / Library. --"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1935
eMuseum Object ID: 
18858
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Buswell Family Record (James and Ruth Buswell and Children)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1781-99
Medium: 
Watercolor and brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 24 x 16 x 1 in. ( 61 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm )
Description: 
Family record
Object Number: 
X.455
Inscriptions: 
Extensive inscriptions of family names, births, marriages, death dates, and names of children and spouses
Gallery Label: 
This New Hampshire family register records the family of James Buswell (born in 1757) and Ruth Buswell (born in 1761), their marriage (December 7, 1780), and their eight children. The certificate was probably executed shortly after 1799, the birth date of the last child listed.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1780
eMuseum Object ID: 
18802
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919): Silhouette

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1900
Medium: 
Black prepared paper cut-out laid on card
Dimensions: 
card: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 14 x 8.9 cm ) image height: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
Description: 
Silhouette: Bust of Theodore Roosevelt in left-facing profile with both hands extended; cutout from black paper and mounted on rectangular cream card.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman, 1926
Object Number: 
Z.2373
Marks: 
inscription: on front: "[Theo Roosevelt]"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
18782
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

James Lawrence (1781-1813)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
ca. 1810
Medium: 
Charcoal and black and white chalk on pink paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 21 7/8 x 16 1/4 in. ( 55.6 x 41.3 cm ) mat: 22 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. ( 56.2 x 43.5 cm )
Description: 
Portrait
Credit Line: 
Gift of Dr. Eugene H. Pool
Object Number: 
1943.487
Inscriptions: 
Verso inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "H. Tholey / after / St. Memin / 1933"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1810
eMuseum Object ID: 
18728
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Falls of Niagara from the Upper Balcony of Brown’s Hotel, Ontario, Canada

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1821
Medium: 
Watercolor and brown ink on ivory paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 14 3/4 x 39 1/4 in. (37.5 x 99.7 cm)
Description: 
Landscape
Credit Line: 
Purchase, Foster-Jarvis Fund
Object Number: 
1952.285
Marks: 
Inscribed and signed at lower center outside image in brown ink: The Falls of Niagara from the upper Balcony of Brown's Hotel R.G. 27th September 1821 / This representation should, according to Rule, be divided into two Pictures as it comprises full 120 D
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed and signed at lower center outside image in brown ink: The Falls of Niagara from the upper Balcony of Brown's Hotel R.G. 27th September 1821 / This representation should, according to Rule, be divided into two Pictures as it comprises full 120 Degrees of the Circle; but I have left them undivided to shew the immense body of water which precipitates itself over the Fall.; at lower left outside image: Yards / Breadth by edge of Falls 1200 / Ditto straight line 960 / Breadth … the Islands 1950; at lower right outside image: Feet Inches / Perpendicular height of horse shoe Fall 156 " 6 / Do of American Fall (opposite) 162 " 6 / Perpendicular from Rapids to edge of Fall 57 " / From foot of Falls to Queens town 7 Miles below 101 "; verso inscribed at center in graphite: by Ralph Gore / Collection of Hon. Lady Curzon Howe / Clifton Castle, Ripon, Yorks.
Provenance: 
Collection of the Hon. Lady Mary Curzon-Howe (daughter of Ann Gore), Clifton Castle, Ripon, Yorkshire, England; Frank T. Sabini Gallery, London, England, 1951; Old Print Shop, New York City, 1952
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1821
eMuseum Object ID: 
18726
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Architectural Rendering of the Country Home of Henry Baldwin and James Hazen Hyde, Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Medium: 
Watercolor, black ink, gouache, and graphite with scratching out on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 3/8 x 32 1/2 in. ( 46.7 x 82.6 cm ) mat: 22 1/2 x 27 x 3/4 in. ( 57.2 x 68.6 x 1.9 cm )
Description: 
Architecture
Credit Line: 
Gift of James Hazen Hyde
Object Number: 
1952.286
Marks: 
signature: lower right: "E.A. Sargent, Pinx." inscription: lower right: "Calvert Vaux/Architect"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower left and right, respectively, in brown ink: "E.A. SARGENT. PINX." and "Calvert Vaux / Architect"
Gallery Label: 
This country mansion was the donor's boyhood home. This is the architect's rendering of the house.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
18724
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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