Collection Highlights
Napoleon's Authorization for the Sale of the Louisiana Territory
Date:
April 24, 1803
Object Number:
MSS.Y1803
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Niagara Falls, from Two Miles Below Chippawa
Object Number:
1868.6
Date:
1808
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 168 1/2 in. ( 73.7 x 428 cm )
frame: 35 3/4 x 172 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (35 3/4 x 172 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Gallery Label:
The two Trumbull paintings of Niagara Falls hung in a gallery of the country home of Dr. David Hosack (1769-1835) at Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 141.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 201.
Goldin, Marco, ed., America: Storie di pittura dal Nuovo Mondo", Italy: Linea d'Ombra Libri, 2007, pp. 62-3, 142-3, 495.
Credit Line:
Gift of Alexander Eddy Hosack
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
