Collection Highlights
The Bulls and Bears in the Market
Date:
1879
Object Number:
1971.104
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Plate: New York from Brooklyn Heights
Object Number:
1940.311
Date:
1820-1829
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 10 1/4 in. ( 2.5 x 26 cm )
Marks:
transfer-printed: in blue on underside of plate: [boy holding plaque] "New York/from Brooklyn Heights/by/W.G. Wall, Esqr. N.Y."
impressed: on underside of plate: "A. STEVENSON WARRANTED STAFFORDSHIRE" around crown
Description:
Molded pearlware plate with dark blue transfer print of New York from Brooklyn Heights; printed floral border, with central image of bucolic scene with road, rider on horseback, and frame house; river with ships and buildings of Manhattan in distance. (Larsen 3rd ed. no. 105)
Gallery Label:
This transfer-printed view contrasts pastoral Brooklyn of ca. 1820 with the urban bustle of lower Manhattan. In the foreground is Fulton Street, and in the background is the "Nassau," built in 1814, the first steam ferryboat to travel between the city of New York and the village of Brooklyn.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Provenance:
Purchased by Mrs. J. Insley Blair from Ginsburg & Levy, Oct. 1932 ($85).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
