Collection Highlights
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Date:
1863
Object Number:
S-189
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Landscape with Seeley's Cottage, Inwood, New York City
Object Number:
1937.1777
Date:
1870-1889
Medium:
Charcoal and crayon with eraser on paper, laid on paper, sandwiched between boards
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/4 x 35 1/2 in. ( 54 x 90.2 cm )
mat: 29 3/8 x 41 3/8 in. ( 74.6 x 105.1 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "R. Schelling"
inscription: on mount: "City Island"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in pink gouache over graphite: "R. SCHELLING"; ettiquette on mount inscribed: "City Island."
Description:
Though the view is cited as of City Island in the Bronx, the title is misleading. The building depicted is the old Abraham Seeley Cottage nea the Cold Spring in what is now Inwood Hill Park at the extreme northern end of Manhattan Island. The location was the south shore of the Harlem River. Inwood Hill appears in the background.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
