Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-225
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Steamboat "Jenny Lind"
Object Number:
1979.77
Date:
1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 3/4 x 47 3/4 in. ( 73 x 121.3 cm )
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "Picture Drawn, & Painted by James Bard, N. Y./Decr 17th 1850"
inscribed: lower left: "Built by George Collyer, N. Y./1850"
Description:
The Collyer sloop General Putnam appears in the background of Bard's painting.
Gallery Label:
This painting descended in the Collyer family. The donor's grandmother was a sister of George, Thomas, and William Collyer, shipbuilders. A drawing by Bard of the Jenny Lind is in the collection of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Roig
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
