Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Chess India
Object Number:
2000.355
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/8 x 12 in. ( 30.8 x 30.5 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box top: "CHESSINDIA/ TRADE MARK/ TOKALON SERIES/ TRADE MARK/ PUBLISHED/ BY/ CLARK & SOWDON/ NEW YORK."
Description:
"Chess India" paper covered cardboard box top for a board game; cover of the box inscribed, "CHESSINDIA/ TRADE MARK/ TOKALON SERIES/ TRADE MARK/ PUBLISHED/ BY/ CLARK & SOWDON/ NEW YORK." with an image of hunters riding an elephant, shooting at a tiger crawling up the elephant's backside.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
