Collection Highlights
The Truant Gamblers (Undutiful Boys)
1835
1858.23
Oil on canvas
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Luce Center
Plate: Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls
Object name
Plate: Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls
Date
1819-1836
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. ( 1.3 x 12.1 cm )
Description
Slightly fluted blue transfer printed pearlware plate; central image depicts a river and an aqueduct in a rural setting; below the image "AQUEDUCT BRIDGE AT L[ITTLE FALLS]; the border pattern is composed of stars; a fence-like pattern. (Larsen, 3rd ed. no. 677)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1940.154
Gallery Label
The maker of this plate has not been identified, although Staffordshire potters like Enoch Wood made transfer prints of this scene. The view is based on a watercolor by James Eights, later engraved for an 1825 memoir by Cadwallader Colden describing the festivities surrounding the completion of the Erie Canal. The canal crossed the Mohawk River at Little Falls, near Utica, where an impressive stone aqueduct with three arches spanned the river.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
