Collection Highlights
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
Date:
October 1660- June 1663
Object Number:
MSS.Ships.Journals.1600
Medium:
Ink on paper
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Museum Collections
Paintings
David Sproat Kennedy (1791-1853)
Object Number:
1950.228
Date:
ca. 1840-1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 10 in. ( 30.5 x 25.4 cm )
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of John and Mary (Lenox) Kennedy. He was named after his great-uncle, David Sproat.
Bibliography:
Phillips, John Marshall, et al., eds., The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collections of Portraits and Silver, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955, pp. 68-9.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 418-9.
Caldwell, John, et al., American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 458-9.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
