Collection Highlights
Chaise (side chair)
1779
1817.13
Beech, gilding; silk upholstery
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
A Southwest View of Kingston, Ulster County, New York
Title
A Southwest View of Kingston, Ulster County, New York
Date
mid-eighteenth century
Medium
Graphite and brown ink on two sheets of paper
Dimensions
Overall: 8 7/8 x 29 7/8 in. ( 22.5 x 75.9 cm )
mat: 11 7/8 x 32 3/8 in. ( 30.2 x 82.2 cm )
Description
This is an eighteenth-century view of colonial Kingston, NY. Townscape.
Credit Line
Gift of Charles A. Clinton
Object Number
1855.2
Marks
inscriptions: signed, lower right: J. Wilkie, fecit.
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "J.Wilkie fecit."; inscribed along lower edge outside image in brown ink: "A Southwest View of Kingston. the Capital of Ulster County. In the Province of New York. in America."; verso inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "a southern view / of Kingston in / Ulster Co."
Gallery Label
This drawing was found among the papers of Colonel Charles Clinton (1690-1773) of Little Britain, New York.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
