Collection Highlights
Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition
Date:
March 20, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.234
Medium:
Ink and colored washes
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Old Spring House, Spuyten Duyvil (Seeley's), New York
Object Number:
Z.2016.14d
Date:
1908
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions:
image size: 3 3/4 x 4 5/8 in. ( 9.5 x 11.7 cm )
mounted: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 27.3 x 23.5 cm )
Marks:
dated: lower right: "JUNE. 2-08."
inscribed in ink/pencil: on lower edge of obverse, continuing below image: "OLD SPRING HOUSE / OL'[?] SPUYTEN DEVIL. / SEELEYS. / LOOKING N.W"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "2"; at lower center in black ink and graphite: "OLD SPRING HOUSE / SPUYTEN DEVIL. / SEELEYS."; at lower right: "JUNE. 2-08."; below on page in graphite: "LOOKING N.W."
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
