Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| View of the Big Gate at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City; verso: view of a room with a desk | 1924 | X.317 | |
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Three Iroquois: Atotárho Protected by Black Snakes, Flanked by Deganawida(?) Offering Wampum and Hiawatha(?) | c. 1827 | X.520[dup] |
| Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), Female | c. 1554-1564 | 1889.10.2.53 | |
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View of the Lower Aqueduct on the Erie Canal, New York | c. 1829-30 | 1974.47 |
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The Execution of Captain Nathan Hale | 1936.463 | |
| Scene of Boys with Bird's Nest | 1850 | 1956.232 | |
| Bowling Green, New York City | 1848 | 1917.9 | |
| Portrait of John Drinkwater (1882-1937) | 1929 | 1990.1.84 | |
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Woman in a Purple Robe | 1890s | 1935.85.3.138 |
| Head of Clove, Haine's Falls, Kaaterskill Clove, Catskill Mountains, New York | 1898 | 1933.185 |
