Collection Highlights
Plan of the City of New York
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.NS3.M36.1.3ab
Medium:
Black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Object Number:
1952.410
Date:
1836-37
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/8 x 13 3/4 in. (21.3 x 34.9 cm)
Marks:
Signed at lower right in brown watercolor: "G. HARVEY"; card inscribed above in brown watercolor: "AFTER-NOON"; below: "HASTINGS-LANDING, PALISADE ROCKS in SHADOW."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in brown watercolor: "G. HARVEY"; card inscribed above in brown watercolor: "AFTER-NOON"; below: "HASTINGS-LANDING. PALISADE ROCKS in SHADOW."
Description:
Genre
Gallery Label:
This watercolor is one of Harvey's different epochs of the day, ca. 1830s-40s. This scene probably represents one or two docks located on the Hudson River on the artist's property at Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York. A clue to the drawings original date may be found in a study by Harvey of somewhat similar subjects with the distant Palisades of the Hudson as a motif (oil on panel, 12 x 19 inches) in the Karolik Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Bibliography:
Olson, Roberta J. M. "George Harvey's Anglo-American atmospheric landscapes." The Magazine Antiques 174 (2008): 112-121.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard
Provenance:
John Elliot Howard, England
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
