Collection Highlights
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Date:
1863
Object Number:
S-189
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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David Hosack, M.D. (1769-1835)
Object Number:
1832.2
Date:
ca. 1825-1830
Medium:
Painted plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 34 x 21 in., 80 lb. (31.8 x 86.4 x 53.3 cm, 36.3 kg)
Marks:
inscribed: inside bust in pencil: "28 [in a circle]"
printed: paper label inside bust: "New York/Hist. Soc./209.63"
Description:
Portrait bust.
Gallery Label:
A native New Yorker, David Hosack became a noted physician and one of the city's most prominent citizens. As a young doctor, he distinguished himself during the yellow fever epidemic of 1797-98, and he was the attending physician at the Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel. He was a biographer and historian as well as a founder and the fourth president of N-YHS (1820-1827).
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. John W. Francis
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
