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Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving
Date:
1878
Object Number:
LIB.PS2069.C4

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Portrait of a Woman
June 12, 1884
Trees on a Hillside, Factory Point, Vermont; verso: sketch mountains and lakeshore
1851
Powder Horn: Joseph Affner (1812-3), with Carving Unfurled, and a Key to the Naval Vessels Depicted on the Horn
1889
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica), Havell plate no. 158
c. 1824; 1829
Surgeon General Thomas Parran (1892-1968)
c. 1940-45
Girl With Dog
Touch 2 - Touch
ca. 1970s
Normandy Girl Caught in a Shower
c. 1861
Landscape with Bridge and Stream
Camanchee (Two Women, Three Children, and Four Dogs)
1866-68
Genesee Falls, Rochester, New York: Study for an Engraving
c. 1836-37
High Bridge, Harlem River, New York City
1920
Incidents in the Life of George Washington: "The Young Surveyor"
1919
Shakespeare Tavern at Nassau and Fulton Streets in 1830, New York City
c. 1890s
Three Studies of Female Figures
1878-1883
Powder Horn: Jansen Wurts (FW-167), with a Landscape Vignette of Kingston, New York in 1819, after John Vanderlyn
c. 1890
Powder Horn: William Blodget (FW-50), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette View of Ticonderoga Village, New York
1891
Afternoon Tea; The Mirror; The Old Bear
c. 1891-1900
Miss E. Young: Silhouette
1859
Sketch of a woman, hands behind head
1878-1883
Great Expectations
c. 1891-1900
Powder Horn: The Concord Bridge, Stephen Parks, Owner (R-137), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignette Scenes of the Battle at Concord Bridge, and a View of Concord, Massachusetts
1890
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula), Havell plate no. 242
1832
Marbled Murrelet (Brachuramphus marmoratus), Havell plate no. 430
1838
Water VII
1997

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