Collection Highlights
Portrait of two girls
Date:
Object Number:
PR.012.1.326.Box12
Medium:
Ambrotype
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Houses on Northeast Corner of Broome and Forsythe Street, New York, as they appeared in 1862
Object Number:
Z.2016.19b
Date:
1908
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions:
image size: 5 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. ( 13.3 x 22.5 cm )
mounted: 9 x 10 3/4 in. ( 22.9 x 27.3 cm )
Marks:
dated: lower right: "Nov. 6th / DEC. 1908."
inscribed in pencil: lower right: "ORIGINAL."
inscribed in ink/pencil: lower left and center: "114 / HOUSES ON N.E. CORNE[sic] of BROOME AND FORSYTHE STS. / AS THEY APPEARED IN 1862- / No. 114 IS WHERE WE LIVE
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in black ink, gray wash, and graphite: "HOUSES ON N.E. CORNE OF BROOME AND FORSYTHE. STS. / AS THEY APPEARED. IN. 1862 -- / No 114. IS WHERE WE LIVED IN 1850. / TORN DOWN IN 1910."; at lower right in black ink and graphite: "NOV. 6th / DEC. 1908. / ORIGINAL."
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
