Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Shakespeare Tavern at Nassau and Fulton Streets in 1830, New York City
Object Number:
1945.595
Date:
c. 1890s
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 7 7/8 in. ( 25.4 x 20 cm )
mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription: verso: "The Old Shakespeare Tavern/On the South West corner of/Fulton St. and Nassau./It stood..to about 1830"
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at center in black ink: "The Old Shakespeare Tavern. / On the South West corner of / Fulton St. and Nassau. / It stood down to about 1830 / and in the early part of the / 19th century the Seventh Regt. / National Guard was formed / here. The drawing is from a / drawing made by an officer / of the Regt."
Description:
Architecture
Gallery Label:
Wallace states that this sketch was taken from a drawing made by an officer of the 7th Regiment, New York National Guard. The regiment was organized at the tavern in 1824.
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
