Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr)
Classification:
Date:
1869
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 73 x 49 x 1 in. ( 185.4 x 124.5 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Oil painting on canvas depicting a young woman being led to her execution during the Salem, Massachusettes witchcraft terror.
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of Thomas S. Noble and Mary C. Noble, in their memory
Object Number:
1939.251
Marks:
signature and date: LR: T.S. NOBLE 1869
inscription: reverse canvas: CHARLES ROBERSON 99 LONG ACRE LONDON
inscription: reverse: T.S. NOBLE CINCINNATI OHIO 350 KEMPER LANE
Gallery Label:
The young woman who posed as the condemned witch was a librarian in the Cincinnati library, and was a lineal descendant of a woman who was actually hanged as a witch in 17th century Salem. Painted in Cincinnati. The frame of heavy walnut was made for the canvas by English woodcarver William Fry, who taught woodcarving in Cincinnati until he was 94 years of age.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1869
eMuseum Object ID:
19156
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. William Lintz (1817-1889)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Edith A. Bagg in memory of her mother, Matilda McLean Lintz Bagg
Object Number:
1944.264
Gallery Label:
Maria Sneckner was the daughter of Henry D. Sneckner and Elizabeth (Arcularius) Sneckner. She married William Lintz on September 10, 1839. Her portrait and that of her husband (1944.264) were gifts to the Society from her granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
19155
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tugboat at North River Pier, N.Y.C
Classification:
Date:
1929
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 24 in. ( 50.8 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Howard Thain
Object Number:
1970.47
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1929
eMuseum Object ID:
19154
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/2 x 27 in. ( 92.7 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1937.26
Gallery Label:
Jedidiah Morse, a Congregational minister and "the father of American geography," was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He was one of the founders of the Andover Theological Seminary and of the American Bible Society and the New England Tract Society. His special interest was geography, and he was the author of the first book on the subject to be published in America--"Geography Made Easy" (1784). Jedidiah Morse was the father of Samuel F. B. Morse, who became famous as a painter and inventor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19153
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
All's Fair in Love and War
Classification:
Date:
1905
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 33 in. ( 55.9 x 83.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Object Number:
1937.166
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1905
eMuseum Object ID:
19152
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figure for "Valley Forge"
Classification:
Date:
1907
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 15 in. ( 50.8 x 38.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Object Number:
1937.1643
Gallery Label:
This is a figure study of the Marquis de Lafayette for Dunsmore's Washington Leaving Mount Vernon for his Inauguration, April 16, 1789. The finished painting, dated 1907, is owned by the Sons of the Revolution, Fraunces Tavern, New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1907
eMuseum Object ID:
19151
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
David Abeel (1763-1840)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1795-1800
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Framed: 34 1/2 × 29 × 2 3/8 in. (87.6 × 73.7 × 6 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of George Abeel
Object Number:
1896.53
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
19149
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Daniel Delavan (1757-1835)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1804-1808
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. ( 78.1 x 62.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Marinus Willett Dominick
Object Number:
1895.2
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was a lieutenant and a captain in the New York regiments during the American Revolution. The portrait, a gift to the Society from his grandson, was painted in New York between Trumbull's return from England in 1804 and his departure again in 1808. During this period Trumbull executed portraits for New York City Hall in addition to private commissions.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 29.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 198-9.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1808
eMuseum Object ID:
19148
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Nicholson (ca. 1737-1804)
Classification:
Date:
After 1784
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.2 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Count de Gallatin
Object Number:
1895.1
Gallery Label:
A native of Chestertown, Maryland, Nicholson served in the Continental Navy. Thereafter, he played an active role in New York politics, and from 1801 to 1804 was U.S. commissioner of loans in New York City. The subject wears his military uniform, bearing the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati, which was founded in 1784.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1784
eMuseum Object ID:
19147
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Engagement Between the U.S. Frigate Constitution and H.M.s. Cyane and H.B.M. Sloop-of-War Levant
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Pastel on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. ( 49.8 x 60 cm )
frame: 21 x 25 x 2 in. ( 53.3 x 63.5 x 5.1 cm )
Object Number:
1963.135
Marks:
inscriptions: Olds # 980
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19111
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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