Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
SUPPORT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Help us present groundbreaking exhibitions and develop educational programs about our nation's history for more than 200,000 schoolchildren annually.
Museum Collections
Luce Center
Vignettes in Three Connected Circles: First Presbyterian Church on Wall Street in 1718; Lutheran Church on Broadway, Burned in 1776; Synagogue on South William Street, New York City
Object Number:
Z.3677.1
Date:
ca. 1867
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink over graphite, with gold metallic pigment, on heavy beige paper with gold upper edge
Dimensions:
Sheet (irregular): 11 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (28.7 x 19.1 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center outside framing lines in black ink: "FACSIMILLIED FROM [David] GRIM'S DRAWINGS."; numbered in graphite at lower right: "42".
Description:
One of a group of watercolor and ink wash drawings of Old New York, some after engravings, drawings, or prints, found in a gold-tooled green leather over wood folder, with marbleized end papers and a printed bookplate, featureing a putto and inscribed "EX LIBRIS / Charlotte Greenough".
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
