Collection Highlights
Medicine Man (Blackfoot): Plate 173
Date:
1866-68
Object Number:
1872.23.173
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
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Museum Collections
Bowling Green and Steamship Row, New York City
Object Number:
1910.56
Date:
1897
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite with scratching out on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 7/8 x 11 in. ( 20 x 27.9 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "Aug. WIll, Nov. 1897"
inscribed: lower: "Bowling Green and Steamship Row, 1897"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in black ink wash: "AUG. WILL fec. Nov 1897."; at lower right outside image: "BOWLNG GREEN AND STEAM SHIP ROW. 1897"; pasted on lower border old catalogue label, no. 1914 from the Edward Babcock Holden Collection, on sale at the American Art Galleries, New York, April 10, 1910
Description:
Cityscape: This is a view south from Bowling Green at the foot of Broadway toward the row of early nineteenth-century houses. The houses were demolished shortly thereafter for the erection of the New York Custom House.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
