Steamship "Frederick VIII"
Classification:
Date:
1914
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 54 x 1 in. ( 71.1 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1938.412
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "A. JACOBSEN 1914"
Gallery Label:
This boat was built in 1913 at Stettin, Germany.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1914
eMuseum Object ID:
429
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tugboat "Ideal"
Classification:
Date:
1906
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1938.413
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "ANTONIO JACOBSEN NJ. / WEST HOBOKEN, NJ 1906"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1906
eMuseum Object ID:
428
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamship "Kansas City"
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1938.416
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "A. JACOBSEN 1890 / 705 PALISADE AV. WEST HOBOKEN, N.J."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
427
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steam Pilot Boat "New Jersey"
Classification:
Date:
1903
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 22 in. ( 35.6 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1938.419
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "A. JACOBSEN 1903 / 31 PALISADE AV. WEST HOBOKEN, N. J. "
Gallery Label:
The New Jersey was built in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, in 1902. She was run down and sunk off Ambrose Lightship in New York harbor on July 10, 1914.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1903
eMuseum Object ID:
426
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamship "Seminole"
Classification:
Date:
1889
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1938.421
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "A. JACOBSEN / 31 PALISADE AV WEST HOBOKEN NJ"
Gallery Label:
Built in 1886 at Philadelphia, the Seminole was a Clyde Line Steamship in the coastal service. Records indicate that the painting was made in 1889.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1889
eMuseum Object ID:
425
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Doing Nothing
Classification:
Date:
1852
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 12 in. ( 35.6 x 30.5 cm )
frame: 21 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 3 in. (21 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 3 in.)
Credit Line:
Gift of the Reverend George S. Webster
Object Number:
1933.8
Inscriptions:
Inscribed on reverse in ink: Geo. H. Yewell Artist / First Picture / Painted 1852
Bibliography:
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 306-7.
Guerra, Alfred A., "George Henry Yewell's Muscatine Opposition: Political Cartoon and Microcosm of Iowa Railroad History, unpublished manuscript, June 2003, p. 23.
Guerra, Alfred A., "The Iowa Railroad Wars and George Henry Yewell's 'Muscatine Opposition,'", Nineteenth Century, Spring 2005, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 19-23.
Guerra, Alfred A., An Analysis of George Henry Yewell's 1852 Painting Doing Nothing, unpublished manuscript, June 2007.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1852
eMuseum Object ID:
424
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Van Nest (1813-1892)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. ( 92.1 x 74.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Mary Vanderpool Van Nest through Sarah H. Van Nest
Object Number:
1939.273
Gallery Label:
John, the son of Abraham Van Nest, Sr., and Margaret (Field) Van Nest, was a banker and businessman of New York. From 1843-53 he was a director of the Greenwich Savings Bank and was a member of the firm of Van Nest and Hayden, saddlery hardware merchants. From 1843 until his death he was a member of The New-York Historical Society. His portrait was a gift to the Society from the estate of his granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
421
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oakland Cottage, Residence of John Harold, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1842-1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 30 in. ( 53.3 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, General Fund
Object Number:
1939.551
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
419
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Frank Henry Norton (1836-1913)
Classification:
Date:
1874
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Augusta (Norton) Simpson
Object Number:
1939.560
Marks:
signature: at right: "Gutierrez"
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Higham, Mass., began his career in 1855 as assistant librarian at the Astor Library, and after many years as a librarian in various libraries in New York, he entered journalism. In addition to writing for newspapers, Norton wrote biographies and plays. Several of his plays were produced in New York theaters, and 1700 of his biographical essays appeared in the "National Cyclopaedia of American Biography."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1874
eMuseum Object ID:
418
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Madison Square, N.Y.C.
Classification:
Date:
1926
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 30 in. ( 63.5 x 76.2 cm )
Frame: 29 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (74.9 x 87.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Howard Thain
Object Number:
1970.39
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1926
eMuseum Object ID:
408
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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