Collection Highlights
Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving
Date:
1878
Object Number:
LIB.PS2069.C4
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Between 84th and 85th Streets, East of Second Avenue, New York City, in 1876
Object Number:
Z.2016.1j
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on lined paper, laid on green paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions:
image size: 3 3/8 x 3 in. ( 8.6 x 7.6 cm )
mounted: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 27.3 x 23.5 cm )
Marks:
dated: lower left: "June 4/76."
signed: lower right: "RILE."
inscribed in pencil: on obverse: Between 84th and 85 Street / EAST OF SECOND AV. / NORTH SIDE OF 84th ST. / SEEN FROM CHURCH / WINDOW ON 85th ST."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in gray wash: "RILE."; at lower left in black ink: "June 4/76"; along lower center in graphite: "Between 84th & 85th Streets"; below on green paper: "EAST OF SECOND AV. / NORTH SIDE OF 84th ST, / SEEN FROM CHURCH / WINDOW ON - 85th ST."
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
