Collection Highlights
Panoramic View of New York City (in Eight Sections)
1842-45
1915.76
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
Decorative Arts
Printed textile of Lindburgh
Title
Printed textile of Lindburgh
Object name
Textile fragment
Date
1927-1928
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 27 1/2 x 18 in. ( 69.8 x 45.7 cm )
Description
Cotton printed textile fragment commemorating Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927; portrait of Lindbergh in a winged-garland with a cat; winged medallions of plane leaving New York in daylight, arriving in Paris in darkness, image of a plane over a globe, plane over the coast of California, and the Spirit of St. Louis; printed in green ink on an off-white ground.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Ellouise Baker Larsen
Object Number
1941.443
Marks
printed: below medallions: "NEW YORK/ PARIS/ SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS/ NEW YORK TO PARIS IN 33hr 29min/ SAN DIEGO"
Gallery Label
The cat below the portrait of Lindbergh on this textile was a stowaway on his transatlantic flight.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
