Collection Highlights
Fort Hamilton Polka Redowa
Date:
1852
Object Number:
PR.020.1.1
Medium:
Color Lithograph.
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Sr. (1838-1918)
Object Number:
1957.59b
Date:
ca. 1924
Medium:
Plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 12 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. ( 50.8 x 31.4 x 21.3 cm )
Description:
Portrait bust
Gallery Label:
This was a model for part of a marble font given by the subject's three children to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1924. It is an imaginary representation of Stuyvesant as a child.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr.
Provenance:
The Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr. Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
