Collection Highlights
The Rail Candidate
Date:
1860
Object Number:
PR.010.1860.Rail
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Portrait of a Seated Old Beggar, from a disassembled album
Object Number:
1953.287a
Date:
1811
Medium:
Graphite on paper with a card announcing the commencement of Columbia College in 1813 mounted on same
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 10 in. ( 20.3 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right, ink: "Old Beggar/Bergerie N. 1811"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "old Beggar / Bergerie N 1811"
Gallery Label:
This is in the sketchbook of the Baroness Hyde de Neuville. On the same sheet of paper is pasted a printed announcement of the 1813 commencement at Columbia College, New York City.
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.
