NEW GALLERY SPACES OPENING IN 2017
In early 2017, our fourth floor will be transformed into a new destination for historical education and innovation. During the current renovation, objects from our permanent collection are on view throughout the Museum.
Collection Highlights
Augustus Coe Gurnee dressed for the Vanderbilt costume ball, March 26, 1883
Date:
March 26, 1883
Object Number:
PR.223.1.16.1
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Museum Collections
Drawings
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Pages
view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) | c. 1554-1564 | 1889.10.3.21 | |
| View of the East River and FDR Drive Looking South, New York City | 1944 | 1944.359 | |
| Powder Horn: David Sanders (R-123), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignette Views of Lexington Common and the Two Battle Monuments, Massachusetts | 1890 | 1907.36.302 | |
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Sketch of Henry Bacon within a street scene | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.105 |
| "Le Pisan", Sketch of a Woman's Head | c. 1876 | 1935.85.2.177 | |
| Foot of John Street, New York City; verso: sketch of various studies, cut | 1868 | 1943.493g | |
| Allegory of Poetry, Painting, Printing and Exhibition; verso: Figure Sketches; from disassembled Cummings album | 1979.30 | ||
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Photographer's Corner | 1999 | 2002.55 |
| Washington Reconnoitering; verso: Washington and Franklin in Council at Cambridge | 1936.907 | ||
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View of Roman Campagna with Ruins of the Torre dei Schiavi, Italy | c. 1854-69 | 1932.194 |
