Collection Highlights
Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C.
ca. 1797
1907.32
oil on linen, lined to fiberglass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate: New York from Brooklyn Heights
Object name
Plate: New York from Brooklyn Heights
Date
1820-1829
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 1 x 10 1/4 in. ( 2.5 x 26 cm )
Description
Molded pearlware plate with dark blue transfer print of New York from Brooklyn Heights; printed floral border, with central image of bucolic scene with road, rider on horseback, and frame house; river with ships and buildings of Manhattan in distance. (Larsen 3rd ed. no. 105)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1940.311
Marks
transfer-printed: in blue on underside of plate: [boy holding plaque] "New York/from Brooklyn Heights/by/W.G. Wall, Esqr. N.Y."
impressed: on underside of plate: "A. STEVENSON WARRANTED STAFFORDSHIRE" around crown
Gallery Label
This transfer-printed view contrasts pastoral Brooklyn of ca. 1820 with the urban bustle of lower Manhattan. In the foreground is Fulton Street, and in the background is the "Nassau," built in 1814, the first steam ferryboat to travel between the city of New York and the village of Brooklyn.
Provenance
Purchased by Mrs. J. Insley Blair from Ginsburg & Levy, Oct. 1932 ($85).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
