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Collection Highlights

Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Date:
1870-1879
Object Number:
PR.104.3
Medium:
Photograph

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Cradle

Object Number: 
1959.89
Former Owner:
Israel Sack, Inc.
Former Owner:
Harry Arons Antiques
Former Owner:
Anne Hulme Wilson
Date: 
1760-1775
Medium: 
Pine, poplar; leather, brass
Dimensions: 
Overall: 28 x 26 x 45 1/4 in. ( 71.1 x 66 x 114.9 cm )
Description: 

Leather-covered pine cradle with edges outlined with brass studs, curved hood with double serpentine-cut front board, and arched foot board; three brass handles, one on either side and one at foot; raised on shaped rockers.

Gallery Label: 

According to the accession records, this cradle belonged to Chancellor Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813) and his family. The Chancellor married Mary Stevens (1752-1814) in 1770. The two had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret Maria Livingston. The leather on the cradle elevated this everyday domestic object into something elegant and worthy of an esteemed and wealthy Hudson Valley family.

Credit Line: 
Purchase, Abbott-Lenox Fund
Place Made: 
North America, U.S.A., New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group