Collection Highlights
Draft wheel
Date:
ca. 1863
Object Number:
1865.6
Medium:
Wood, metal
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Drawings
Hudson Highlands from Newburgh Bay, New York
Object Number:
1953.202
Date:
1807
Medium:
Graphite and gray wash on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. ( 18.4 x 34 cm )
mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right, ink: "view on hudson river taken from the albany Sloop diana/october 1807"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "view on hudson river taken from the albany Sloop diana / -- october 1807 --"
Description:
Landscape
Gallery Label:
In his memoirs the Baron Hyde de Neuville wrote: "The Hudson River is magnificent, truly imposing and its banks are as picturesque as they are romantic." This is a view of the Highlands south toward West Point. At the right is Butter Hill, now known as Storm King. Breakneck Mountain is at the left.
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.
