Collection Highlights
Novi Belgii Novaque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virginiae Tabula
Date:
After 1655
Object Number:
LIB.NS4.M31.1.38
Medium:
Engraving, hand colored
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Object Number:
1933.1
Date:
After 1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 62.9 cm )
Gallery Label:
This portrait was copied from the original which Charles Loring Elliott painted ca. 1845. Twitchell, who spent most of his career as a portrait painter in Albany, had studied with Elliott, who had also begun his career in Albany--then the social, economic, and governmental hub located about 55 miles from the subject's family estate at Cooperstown.
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
