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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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Figure Studies (after Tintoretto?)
Object Number:
1935.85.1.10
Date:
c. 1874
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper, formerly mounted on a page of James Carroll Beckwith Album 1
Dimensions:
sheet: 5 13/16 x 3 3/4 in. (14.8 x 9.5 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed by Beckwith at lower center in graphite: "Figure from Tintoretto / by Sargent"; at lower left: "Worship / of the / Golden Calf"
Description:
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of albumn page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Provenance:
James Carroll Beckwith; The National Academy of Design, New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
