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Collection Highlights

View of St. Patrick's Cathedral from Inside Rockefeller Center: Study for a Set of Painted Doors
2002
2002.46
Gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on gray paper
Artist/Maker: Richard Haas

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Plate

Plate
Object name 
Plate
Date 
1892
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Wedgwood
Related People 
Depicted: Abraham Lincoln
Medium 
Earthenware
Dimensions 
Overall: 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. ( 1 x 21 cm )
Description 
Glazed earthenware scalloped edge plate with transfer print decoration in light blue of portrait of Abraham Lincoln in center with border of bay leaves and berries on rim.
Credit Line 
Gift of Mr. James Hazen Hyde
Object Number 
1948.561c
Marks 
impressed: on back: "Wedgwood" with image of anchor above it; "DXU/77" stamped: in ink on back: "Wedgwood/Etruria, England."
Gallery Label 
This plate is part of a set of 6, with portrait images of Washington, Lincoln, Sheridan, Sherman, and William Cullen Bryant.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.