Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Paintings
John Budd Slawson (1814-1886)
Object Number:
1970.71
Date:
1851
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 30 in. ( 91.4 x 76.2 cm )
Marks:
inscription: at left: "A. G. Powers / Pinxt."
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Elihu Slawson and Esther (Case) Slawson of Goshen, N.Y. He was a cotton trader in New Orleans, and when the city fell to federal troops on May 1, 1862, he was forced to evacuate his family and later to flee himself to Paris, where they remained until the end of the war. Upon their return they established residence in New York; Slawson became president of the Crosstown Street Railway and invented and patented the Slawson fare box.
Credit Line:
Gift of Morgan S. A. Reichner
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
