17 watercolors and drawings by Anne Marguérite Joséphine Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville, and one drawing by Alessandro Malaspin
Abigail Underhill sampler, 1800
American sampler
Abigail Underhill
“Miss Lena Horne, Opening no., Lou Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1938”, “The Reverse, Cotton Club.” , “Minnie the Moucher, Cotton Club.” and “Calypso, Cotton Club.”
four costume design renderings created by Frances Feist for musical revues performed at the Cotton Club between 1937 and 1939
Frances Feist (1910-1995)
<em>Scarlet Letter</em> and <em>The Garden of the Hesperides</em>
Janes & Kirtland, Beebe Model (No. 1),six-plate cast iron cooking stove
Janes & Kirtland (mid-19th century)
Decorative plaster pedestal of <em>The Brook</em> (1901)
A decorative plaster pedestal of The Brook (1901), a sculpture by Isidore Konti. This sculpture was Konti’s initial conception for a lost marble fountain at Samuel Untermyer’s estate in Yonkers. The pedestal is a cast plaster bell-shaped, hollow form with a flat top made of wooden slats. Surrounding the exterior of the pedestal is a relief depicting several putti interacting with water animals (ducks, fish)
Isidore Konti
1901
"Morning"
A circular bas relief plaster roundel. The roundel depicts a woman's head in profile with a flower in her hair set atop cherub wings. A rising sun appears in the background. The plaster is enclosed in a glazed, gilt shadow box frame.
Erastus Dow Palmer (1817-1904)
19th Century framed hair work flower arrangement
<em>View of the Schoharie, 1826</em>
oil on canvas
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Harry Howard's helmet
fire helmet of Harry Howard, the most famous firefighter of his era (1840-1865), both in New York state and across the country.
c. 1840