Collection Highlights
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris
ca. 1780
1954.148
Oak, leather, metal
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Luce Center
"Amigo Protector" Off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York
Title
"Amigo Protector" Off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York
Date
1814
Medium
Watercolor, brown ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 6 1/2 x 8 in. ( 16.5 x 20.3 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Description
Marine
Credit Line
Purchase
Object Number
1953.263
Marks
inscription: lower, ink: "amigo-Protector--Long island, Montauk point, Last Land/22 may"
inscription: lower right: "Liverpool/6 Juillet"
Inscriptions
Inscribed at lower left between framing lines in brown ink: "amigo Protrector -- Long island Montauk-point. Last Land / 22 May"; at lower right between framing lines: "Liverpool. / 6 Juillet."
Gallery Label
The Amigo Protector was a Portuguese vessel on which the de Neuvilles sailed from New York in May 1814 on their return journey to Europe. Montauk Point, at the eastern end of Long Island, was the last land seen on the American coast. The de Neuvilles disembarked at Liverpool, England, on July 8. Two days later they were in London and "a few days" later in Paris.
Provenance
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
