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
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
"Novum Amsterodamum" (New Amsterdam, New Netherlands)
Title
"Novum Amsterodamum" (New Amsterdam, New Netherlands)
Date
1650
Medium
Watercolor and brown and black ink over black chalk on ivory paper, laid on four other layered sheets
Dimensions
Overall: 5 13/16 x 19 1/16 in. (14.8 x 48.4 cm)
Description
Landscape
Credit Line
Gift of C.E. Detmold
Object Number
1881.2
Marks
Inscribed inside image within banner in black ink: NOVUM AMSTERODAMUM [partially relettered]; along lower left border inside image: Faer t [Paer t; Vaer t; In
Inscriptions
Inscribed inside image within banner in black ink: NOVUM AMSTERODAMUM [partially relettered]; along lower left border inside image: Faer t [Paer t; Vaer t; In
Gallery Label
This is the earliest original view of New York owned by the Society.
Provenance
Unidentified Dealer, The Hague, 1879; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 1880
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
