Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1785-1789
Object Number:
1916.7
Medium:
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
East Side of Broadway, Between Pine and Cedar Streets, New York City
Object Number:
X.347
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on paper laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 7/8 x 10 in. ( 14.9 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: lower left, ink: "Cedar St."
inscription: lower center: "Broadway and Cedar St., 1848"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed below image in black ink: "CEDAR ST. 124 122 120 118 116 114 112 110 108 / BROADWAY AND CEDAR ST. 1848."
Description:
Cityscape
Gallery Label:
These buildings are nos. 108 to 124 on Broadway. This watercolor was copied from Jones and Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York, 1848. (There is a copy in the Print Room, NYHS.)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
