Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Summer. A Broken Axletree. American Wood Scene, near Thornville, Ohio.: Study for an Aquatint in "Harvey's Scenes..." | before 1841 | 1947.495 |
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American Black Duck (Anas rubripes), Havell plate no. 302 | c. 1832-34 | 1863.17.302 |
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The Temptation of St. Anthony; verso: recumbent figure kneeling before a tree(?) | 1946 | 2009.35 |
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Equestrian Statue of King George III, Bowling Green, New York City | c. 1912 | 1923.118 |
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Study of a Bat and a Bat Ear | 1841 | Z.3332 |
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Cornelia Helen Merrill (ca. 1880-1963) | 1963.35 | |
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Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus) and Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus), Havell plate no. 373 | 1836-37 | 1863.17.373 |
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"Coming Home": Scene Aboard the S.S. Switzerland | 1878 | 1935.85.1.26 |
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View with St. Paul's Chapel and Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City | c. 1798 | 1864.15 |
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Punishing the Ringleader of the Mutineers of the New York Volunteer Engineers, Hilton Head, South Carolina | 15 December 1862 | 1945.580.12 |
