Collection Highlights
Plan of the City of New York
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.NS3.M36.1.3ab
Medium:
Black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Dr. Maurice Swabey (1752?-1826)
Object Number:
1858.74
Date:
ca. 1800
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.8 x 64.1 cm )
Gallery Label:
Swabey, an Englishman and a fellow of the College of Advocates, was an associate of John Trumbull in London when the artist was there negotiating the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 15, 69.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, pp. 787-8.
Credit Line:
Gift of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
