Collection Highlights
Panoramic View of New York City (in Eight Sections)
Date:
1842-45
Object Number:
1915.76
Medium:
Black ink over graphite on eight sheets of ivory paper with partial black ink borders, laid on Japanese paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Printed textile
Object Number:
1949.104
Date:
1800
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 3/4 x 24 5/8 in. ( 60.3 x 62.5 cm )
Marks:
printed: all over: "PLAN/ of the City of Washington/ in the Territory of Columbia./ ceded by the states of/ VIRGINIA and MARYLAND/ to the United States of America/ and by them established as the/ Seat of their GOVERNMENT/ after the year/ M D C C C./ ..."
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief of a map of Washington, D.C.; printed in turkey red on white ground; decorative border with images of a Native American, a schooner, personifications of Liberty and Justice, and a cornucopia at the four corners.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Credit Line:
Purchase
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