Collection Highlights
Declaration of Independence
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1776.4
Medium:
Paper, broadside
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825)
Object Number:
1973.9
Date:
After 1817
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 5/8 x 38 in. ( 126 x 96.5 cm )
Gallery Label:
The subject was an Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1904-07) and Governor of New York from 1807 to 1817; he subsequently served two terms as Vice-President (1817-25). This unsigned work is apparently a replica of a portrait painted by Sully for a Dr. Gillespie. The original, which is dated 1817, was in the collection of The Brook, New York, at the time the Society acquired this portrait as a gift from the subject's great-grandson.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Philip W. Tompkins
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
