Collection Highlights
Salver
Date:
1772-1773
Object Number:
1928.24
Medium:
Silver
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Shipwrecked Mother and Child, Folio no.14 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
Object Number:
1944.379
Date:
1829
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink and gouache with scratching out on paper, bound into album
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. ( 8.9 x 13 cm )
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left inside framing lines in black ink: "F.S. Agate 1829"; inscribed below image in brown ink: "'For her pale arm a babe had prest, / With such a wreathing grasp / Billows had dash'd oe'r that fond breast / Yet not undone the clasp. / Her very tresses had been flung / To wrap the fair child's form / Where still there wet long streamers clung / All tangled by the storm / And beautiful midst that wild scene / Gleam'd up the boy's dead face.' (Mrs. Hemans' Poems)"
Description:
Genre
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Provenance:
John Ludlow Morton, New York City; Harriet E. Morton Ellison; Emily Ellison Post, Jackson Heights, New York City
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
