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Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition
Date:
March 20, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.234
Medium:
Ink and colored washes

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Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), Havell plate no. 371
1836-37
Study from Anthony Van Dyck's "The Lamentation of Christ", Antwerp, Belgium
1878-1883
View from Fishkill Looking to West Point, New York: Preparatory Study for Plate 15 of "The Hudson River PortFolio"
1820
Powder Horn: Joseph Barlow (FW-73), with Carving Unfurled, and a Landscape Vignette of Little Falls on the Mohawk River, New York
1892; 1894
Colonel Henry Ludington: Silhouette
1777
Louisiana Waterthrush (Seiurus motacilla), Havell plate no. 19
1821
Three Sketches of a Dog (Blenny)
1890s
Ellen Mills: Silhouette
1859
Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), Havell plate no. 365
1819; c. 1835
Line of Trees in a Landscape
1860-1869
Sketchbook with 33 Folios, 1 blank, with six independent sheets inserted, one attached with a common pin
1874-84
Desirea
1880s
David E. Wheeler: Silhouette
1820-1850
William Mooney (1756-1831): Silhouette
c. 1790-1800
Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia), Havell plate no. 245
1833
Parish Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England
1841
Study of a child's head
1878-1883
Atom Bomb Hits New York City: Illustration for "Hiroshima, U.S.A." in Collier's, 5 August 1950, cover
1950
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), Havell plate no. 116
1829
Man Wearing a Hat and Smoking a Clay Pipe; verso: Landscape Study
1872
Unidentified man
ca. 1870
foryoumoh…* Kattie
1999
Powder Horn: Ebenezer Deen (FW-17), with Carving Unfurled and a Vignette of a 18th Century Military Encampment with Officer
1889, 1894
Portrait of Peter of Buffalo, Tonawanda, New York, possibly chief Tall Peter, or Peter Blacksnake
1807
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria), Havell plate no. 289
c. 1825

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