Collection Highlights
Settee
Date:
ca. 1800
Object Number:
INV.14952
Medium:
Maple, paint
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Luce Center
Henry H. Hamsted (c. 1756-1848)
Object Number:
1957.67
Date:
c. 1796
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 4 3/8 in. ( 13.3 x 11.1 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Henry H. Hamsted"
inscription: on back: "A picture of Ida Hemstead's[sic] grandfather painted before the year 1839 . . . This picture is about 160 years old from 1796 to 1956"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Henry H Hamsted"; verso of card inscribed in graphite in 1956 about sitter
Gallery Label:
Hamsted was a sea captain who lived to the age of ninety-two years. He is pictured in this watercolor in a painted Hitchcock-type chair overlooking the sea and pointing to a three-masted schooner on the horizon.
Credit Line:
Gift of James McBride
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
