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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Coffeepot
Object Number:
1951.284
Date:
1775-1776
Medium:
Silver
Description:
Originally purchased by New York’s Gouverneur Morris during his time in France as the United States minister, this late eighteenth-century coffeepot was sold to Robert R. Livingston, a fellow Francophile and a successor as minister to France.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mr. Goodhue Livingston
Exhibitions:
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
