Collection Highlights
Stained glass window
Date:
ca. 1656
Object Number:
1951.414c
Medium:
Glass
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Historical Artifacts
Plaque:..Reformed Protestant Dutch Church...first stone 1767
Object Number:
1970.77
Date:
1875-1925
Medium:
Plaster, wood, paint
Dimensions:
framed: 11 5/8 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 29.5 x 29.2 x 3.8 cm )
Marks:
intaglio: on obverse: "THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT BY THE CONGREGATION / OF THE REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH IN / THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR ENGLISH SERVICE UNDER THE / INSPECTION OF A COMMITTEE OF / ELDERS / PETER MARSCHALK / PETER LOTT / CORN S BOGERT / THE
Description:
Plaster cast made from an inscribed pewter plate originally mounted inside the North Dutch Church at William and Fulton Streets in New York City; square, light gray and brown tinted surface covered from edge to edge with intaglio inscriptions; gold painted wooden frame.
Gallery Label:
According to the 1916 "Year Book of The Holland Society of New York" (p. 776), the original pewter plate was installed in the North Dutch Church, which was erected in the 1760s, by Deacon Garrett Abeel, one of the church's commissioners. The nine-inch square plate was removed in June, 1875, when the building was dismantled.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Marjorie Comstock Lyon
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
