Collection Highlights
Siamese Twins
Date:
1836
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1836.55
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Portrait of a Mexican Sailor on the "Amigo Protector"
Object Number:
1953.283
Date:
1814
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and touches of black ink on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. ( 19 x 15.9 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower, brown ink: "Mattelot, Mexicain de l'amigo Protector Juin 1814"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed below image in brown ink: "Mattelot [sic Matelot] Mexicain de l'amigo Protector Juin 1814 --"
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
