Collection Highlights
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
Date:
ca. 1700-1725
Object Number:
1952.80
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Peepshow
Object Number:
INV.10894ab
Date:
1939
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 6 3/8 x 1/4 in. ( 12.7 x 16.2 x 0.6 cm )
Marks:
written: in pencil on reverse of brown envelope: "October 28, 1944"
printed: on cover of peepshow around circular window: " THE WORLD OF TOMORROW* NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR"
printed: on cover of peepshow, upper left corner: "1789" on upper right corner "19
Description:
Printed color cardboard and paper peep-show or "perspective" showing the 1939 World's Fair; rectangular cover with circular window surrounded by scene of a clown showing George Washington and other figures dressed in colonial garb the circular window; interior with accordion folds decorated with views of the grounds of the 1939 World's Fair with a statue of Washington and the Trylon and Perisphere; with brown paper envelope.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
