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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A Hoosier Zouave, from a disassembled sketchbook
Object Number:
X.297a
Date:
c. 1861-65
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and white lead pigment on lined ledger paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 6 in. ( 19 x 15.2 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Inscribed across top: gen Lew Wallaces Indiana Zouaves. Across bottom: The Hoosier Zouave in graphite lower right: F E Roansin
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along upper edge in graphite: "Gen Lew. Wallaces Indiana Zouaves"; at lower center in brown ink: "The Hoosier Zouave"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
