Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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Dutch Houses on State Street, Albany, New York
Object Number:
1953.229
Date:
1807
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and brown ink on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 7 in. ( 14 x 17.8 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower, ink: "Dutch houses, State Street, Albany, october 1807"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center outside image in brown ink: "Dutch-houses, State Street albany october -- 1807 --"; at lower right below two figures: "L'Ecorcheur gre..."
Description:
Architecture
Gallery Label:
The buildings depicted were located at 60 and 62 State Street. The names on the the signboards are of William Caldwell, merchant, and I. and J. Townsend, ironmongers.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
