Collection Highlights
William Walton (1706-1768)
Date:
ca. 1750
Object Number:
1902.3
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Sketchbook with 44 Folios and endpapers (Views of New York State Including Lake George, Lake Champlain, Saratoga, Albany, and the Catskills Region)
Object Number:
1944.430.2
Date:
1815
Medium:
Watercolor, brown, and gray ink and wash, and graphite with scratching out on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 8 in. ( 10.8 x 20.3 cm )
Inscriptions:
Inscribed inside front cover along upper edge above black ink bust silhouette in brown ink: "55 Sketches (by George Heriot Esq'r. 1st Postmater General. Brit. America / in the United States 1815."; below in graphite: "These are mostly very rough"; multiple brown ink inscriptions on the various folios
Description:
Sketchbook
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Provenance:
Stiles Stevens, Esq., London, 1944
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
