Jacob's Dream
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1852
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (Canvas): 51 x 70 in. (129.5 x 177.8 cm)
Framed: 56 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. × 2 in. (142.2 × 190.5 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Luther Terry, in the name of the late Mrs. Eliza Hicks Rieben
Object Number:
1871.3
Gallery Label:
The subject is taken from Genesis 28:11-12, which describes Jacob's journey from Beersheba towards Haran: "An he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it."
Bibliography:
"Fine Art Gossip," The Literary World, Vol. 2, October 1847, p. 205.
"The Chronicle: American Art and Artists," Bulletin of the American Art-Union, Series for 1851, No. III, June 1851, p. 50.
"The Fine Arts. Exhibition of Paintings by the National Academy of Design," New York Herald, April 21, 1852, p. 3.
"Fine Arts. The National Academy of Design," The Albion, Vol. II, No. 17, April 24, 1852, pp. 201-2.
"The Fine Arts. Exhibition of the National Academy of Design," The Literary World, May 1, 1852, p. 316.
New York Tribune, June 7, 1852, p. 5.
Horwitz, Orville, Brushwood, Picked up on the Continent: Or, Last Summer's Trip to the Old World, Philadelphia: J.B. Linppincott & Co., 1855, pp. 150-5.
Weed, Thurlow, Letters from Europe and the West Indies, 1843-62, Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1866, p. 558.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Travelers in Arcadia: American Artists in Italy 1830-1875, Detroit: 1951, pp. 59-60.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. III, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 177-8.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1852
eMuseum Object ID:
41210
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Canal Street and Broadway, N.Y.C.
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 30 1/4 in. ( 61 x 76.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Works Projects Administration
Object Number:
1940.973
Gallery Label:
This painting was executed under the United States government-sponsored Works Projects Administration.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
41209
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Old Stone Schoolhouse near Dunraven, N.Y.
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 15 in. ( 45.7 x 38.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.52
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
41208
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Lent-Rapalje House, Bowery Bay
Classification:
Date:
1877
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 29 3/4 in. ( 45.7 x 75.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1947.65
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1877
eMuseum Object ID:
41205
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
Classification:
Date:
1868
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. ( 61.6 x 92.1 cm )
frame: 29 7/8 x 41 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. ( 75.9 x 106.4 x 6.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1939.586
Gallery Label:
An oil rendition of this building by H. H. Reppert, taken in 1904, is also in the Society's collection.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1868
eMuseum Object ID:
41202
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ruins of the Old Church, Jamestown, Va.
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 1/2 x 39 3/4 in. ( 72.4 x 101 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.455
Inscriptions:
On back of canvas: "JAMESTOWN, VA. / the old Church in Ruins / By G.W. Mark, Pinxt & Del."
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
41201
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Caleb Heathcote (1666-1721)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1710-1715
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 1/2 x 26 1/4 in. ( 80 x 66.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1913.3
Marks:
inscription: on back [written by William Heathcote De Lancey in 1851]: ". . . this Portrait, painted in England, & brought to New York, was taken back to England in 1781 by Mrs. Anne Jones, who left it to my Sister Anne Charlotte (Mrs. John Loudon McAdams
Gallery Label:
Heathcote, one of the most prosperous and influential leaders of the Colony of New York in the early 18th century, was born in Derbyshire, England, but came to North America in 1692 to establish himself as a merchant. It was as a civil, military, and ecclesiastical leader that he left his mark, however. He was a colonel in the militia, and one of the original vestrymen of the Anglican Church. He held several offices in city and provincial government, including the office of mayor (1711-13).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1715
eMuseum Object ID:
41188
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George P. A. Healy (1813-1894)
Classification:
Date:
1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 62.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Watson Fund
Object Number:
1959.72
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "Geo. P. A. Healy the 29th year of his life / City of Washington 1842"
Gallery Label:
Healy was one of the most successful portrait painters in Europe and America in the mid-19th century. He opened a studio in his native Boston about 1831, and went to Paris to study three years later, subsequently gaining an international reputation as a portraitist.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
41187
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Patrick Cardinal Hayes (1867-1938)
Classification:
Date:
1930
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Description:
A portrait of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, the fifth Archbishop of New York. He is seated facing right in a dark green upholstered chair, which is embellished with gold armrests. The subject is a white-haired man with a ruddy complexion. He is wearing a red cap and a traditional red cloak over a finely embroidered red and white garb. On his right ring finger is a large jeweled ring and in his right hand is his status-signifying hat. Around his neck rests a large jewel encrusted gold cross. Signed in lower left hand corner: DeWitt M. Lockman N.R.
Credit Line:
Painted from life for the Society
Object Number:
1930.17
Marks:
signature: lower left: "DeWitt M. Lockman, N.A."
Gallery Label:
Cardinal Hayes, born in New York, was graduated from Manhattan College in 1888 and received his S.T.D. from Catholic University in 1894. He was named archbishop of New York in 1919 and created a cardinal five years later by Pope Pius XI.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
41186
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Stephen Decatur (1779-1820)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815-1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 23 5/8 in. ( 73.7 x 60 cm )
Framed: 37 3/4 × 32 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (95.9 × 83.2 × 8.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.309
Gallery Label:
U.S. Navy officer Stephen Decatur was famous for his daring and bravery in battle. Probably his most celebrated victory, which came in the War of 1812 when he commanded the "United States," was his capture of the British frigate "Macedonian." This portrait of Decatur was obtained by the donor from the Peale Museum in Philadelphia when that institution closed.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
41178
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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