Collection Highlights
Totius Neobelgii Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula
Date:
After 1674
Object Number:
LIB.NS4.M31.1.28
Medium:
Engraving, hand colored
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Helen Van Cortlandt Morris (ca. 1885-1958)
Object Number:
1905.171
Date:
1897
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7.3 x 5.7 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on cardboard backing: "Carl & Fredrika Weidner pinxt./N.Y. 1897. no 286/Miss Helen Morris."
signed: on left: "Weidner"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a sister of Monson Morris. As children she and her brother were members of the household of Alonzo C. Monson, a former judge of the California Supreme Court and treasurer of the New York Jockey Club. In 1904 Miss Morris married Nelson Beardsley Burr, a New York lawyer and railroad executive.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
