Artist/Maker
William Henry Wallace
View of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, Gowanus, Long Island, New York
1874
Place madeNew York, United States, North America
Black ink and graphite on heavy watercolor paper
Overall: 13 1/2 × 17 3/8 in. (34.3 × 44.1 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
1926.102
DescriptionThis sketch depicts the ruins of the Vechte-Cortelyou house shortly before it was covered with landfill at the end of the nineteenth century.Markingsinscriptions: signed and dated, lower left: W.H.Wallace/1874. bottom center: Old Cortelyou/House./Built 1699.
InscribedSigned and inscribed at lower left in black ink: "W. H. Wallace / 1874."
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
before 1856
1899.5
