Collection Highlights
Punch bowl: Landing of Lafayette
Date:
1840-1850
Object Number:
1910.24
Medium:
Earthenware
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Anthony Morris (1791-1839) or Herman Morris (1794-1849)
Object Number:
1966.29
Date:
ca. 1838
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 x 36 in. ( 124.5 x 91.4 cm )
Gallery Label:
The subject is either Anthony or Herman Morris, the fourth and fifth sons of John Morris and Sarah (Bruen) Morris. A gift to the Society from the subject's great-grandnephew, this portrait hung in the entrance hall of the Mitchell home at 60 West 9th Street for many years.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 2, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 552.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Cornelius von Erden Mitchell
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
