Collection Highlights
"Columbia Demands Her Children"
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.010.1864.30
Medium:
Paper
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Luce Center
Portrait of the "Savant" on Board the "Eurydice"
Object Number:
1953.257
Date:
1816
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 3 3/8 in. ( 12.7 x 8.6 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower, brown ink: "Le Savant de L'Eurydice qui croit/que l'Eau du Canal de Behama/est bouillante"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed below oval in brown: ""Le Savant de L'Eurydice qui croit / que L'Eau du Canal de Bahama / ess Couillante."
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
