Collection Highlights
Properties, Including Vacant Plots, Foreclosed in Manhattan During 1930-1931-1932
Date:
March 29, 1933
Object Number:
LIB.F128.HD251.R28
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Flower Sketch (Made on the Brandywine River, Pennsylvania)
Object Number:
1953.269
Date:
1810
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. ( 19 x 10.8 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower, ink: "fleur dessinee sur les Bords du Brandy Wine/le 6 7bre 1810..."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed below plant in brown ink: "fleur déssiné sûr les Bords du Brandy-wine / le. 6 7bre 1810.. / Couleur violet tendre les Etamines Jeannes / ainsi que le Pistil les feuilles d'un verd tend[cut] / ou La Dit un tès bon -- fébrifuge."
Description:
Plant study
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.
