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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
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Dissected Map of the United States
Title
Dissected Map of the United States
Object name
Picture puzzle
Date
1887
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
box: 1 1/8 x 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. ( 2.9 x 26 x 19 cm )
Description
"A Dissected Map of the United States" picture puzzle with 49 pieces (missing New Mexico) and a printed, folded illustration of the puzzle in a cardboard box; cover lithographed with an illustration in various colors of Liberty dressed in a blue gown with draped flags, laurel leaves, oak and acorn and a U.S. shield holding a sword in one hand a a golden ball in the other; box cover inscribed, "DISSECTED/ MAP/ OF THE/ UNITED STATES/ McLOUGHLIN, BROS., NEW YORK".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.549
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "DISSECTED/ MAP/ OF THE/ UNITED STATES/ McLOUGHLIN, BROS., NEW YORK"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
