Collection Highlights
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Date:
1885-1886
Object Number:
LIB.XL.CT.G763.A3
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
House and Farm
Object Number:
1953.208
Date:
1808
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and brown ink with touches of white gouache on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/8 x 18 1/2 in. ( 31.4 x 47 cm )
mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Marks:
date: lower right, ink: "7bre 1808"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right outside image in brown ink: "7bre 1808."
Description:
Architecture/landscape
Gallery Label:
A charming view of a farmhouse and adjacent buildings near a stream. It may represent a scene at Angelica in Allegany County or Newark Valley near Owego in Tioga County, New York.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
