Collection Highlights
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781-1853)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.4
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
North Side of East 88th Street Between Lexington and Third Avenue, New York City
Object Number:
Z.2016.8a
Date:
1908
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions:
image size: 5 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. ( 14.3 x 16.2 cm )
mounted: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 27.3 x 23.5 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: on obverse: "NORTH SIDE EAST 88th ST BETWEEN LEXINGTON AND / THIRD AV. IN 1908. --MAY 13th"
inscribed in pencil: on obverse: "TORN DOWN IN SPRING OF 1913"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in black ink: "NORTH SIDE EAST. 88th ST BETWEEN. LEXINGTON AND / THIRD AV. IN 1908. --MAY. 13th."; at lower left in graphite: "TORN DOWN IN SPRING OF 1913"
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
