Collection Highlights
Front View of St. Peter's Church with the intended steeple
Date:
1785
Object Number:
PR.McComb.4.70
Medium:
Paper
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Top hat in box
Object Number:
1941.1206ab
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Silk, ribbon, leather, cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall (hat): 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (16.5 x 23.5 x 29.5 cm)
Box: 8 x 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. ( 20.3 x 24.8 x 32.4 cm
Marks:
printed: on card affixed to inside of crown: "Mr. John Ward Dunsmore. / Saturday Afternoons. 96 Fifth Avenue"
stamped: on inside of crown (partially covered by Dunsmore's card): "EXTRA QUALITY / TRADE MARK / REGISTERED 30314 / . . . "
printed paper lab
Description:
Black silk top hat with black grosgrain ribbon band and small circular vent in top of crown; in oval cardboard box covered in gray paper, with white cotton ribbon ties.
Gallery Label:
John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945) was one of America's leading painters of murals and historical subjects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The N-YHS owns over fifty of his works.
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
