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Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow

Date:

1859

Object Number:

1941.1209

Medium:

Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper

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A Brief Description of NEW-YORK: Formerly Called New-Netherlands..

1670

LIB.Y.1670.Den

A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...

1697

MSS.BV.Benjamin.Bullivant

Allegory of New Amsterdam or New York in America: Study for the Engraving "N: Amsterdam, ou N: Iork in Ameriq--:"

c. 1700

1949.45

Apothecary bottle with cover

ca. 1750

INV.14994ab

Apothecary bottle with cover

ca. 1750

INV.14995ab

Bedcover or wall hanging (palampore)

ca. 1720-1740

1938.1

Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant

1656

LIB.Y.1656.D

Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)

ca. 1700

1911.38

1675-1775

Z.1704

Butterfield dial and case

1685-1715

1910.32ab

1689-1705

1951.597

ca. 1710-1725

1972.26

Colonel Gerardus Beekman, M. D. (1653-1723)

ca. 1710-1720

1978.59

Cornelius Steenwyck (? - 1684)

ca. 1670

1856.1

Delft Figural Salt Cellar in the Form of a Seated Boy

ca. 1673

1974.12

1964.57

ca. 1703

1965.14

Het gezandtschap der Ne

1693

LIB.Y-q.1693.Nieuhof

1599

LIB.Y-q.1598.Ind

late seventeenth to early eighteenth century

1954.22a

late 17th century, early 18th century

1954.22bc

Journael Gehouden opt

October 1660- June 1663

MSS.Ships.Journals.1600

ca. 1600-1750

INV.6509

1675-1690

1941.914

1675-1775

Z.158