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Age of Exploration and Dutch New York

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Age of Exploration and Dutch New York

Many of the New-York Historical Society's founders and nineteenth-century members had deep roots in New York, a significant number of them descended from families who immigrated in the seventeenth century. These early members were also deeply committed to exploration, and, as such, they collected and donated to the Society many artifacts that help tell the story of the Age of Exploration, and its trajectory, which led to the Dutch founding and settling of New York.

Most of the objects illustrated here are rarely-seen, early treasures from the Society's collections, including its 1542 Ulpius globe, which documents Verrazano's North American discoveries, an exceptional early-eighteenth century hand-painted Indian wall hanging, seventeenth-century maps and renderings of New Amsterdam and New York, and the only known portrait of Peter Stuyvesant painted during his lifetime.

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Cornelius Steenwyck (d. 1684)
Unidentified artist
ca. 1670
1856.1
Terrestrial globe
Eufrosino della Volpaia
1542
1872.22
Petrus (Peter) Stuyvesant (1611/12–1672)
Unidentified artist
1660-1669
1909.2
Seal matrix
Unidentified maker
ca. 1646
1909.34
Butterfield dial and case
Nicolas Bion
1685–1715
1910.32ab
Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)
Benjamin Wynkoop
ca. 1700
1911.38
Pin tray
Johannes Reyniers
1683
1911.48
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bayard
Unidentified artist
ca. 1644
1915.7
Mrs. Barent Rynders Jr. (1673-1762)
Gerardus Duyckinck I
1720–1726
1919.3
Spoon
ca. 1700-1750
1937.627
Wafer iron
Unidentified maker
1717
1937.1181
Kast
Unidentified maker
1675-1690
1941.914
Seal matrix
Unidentified maker
ca. 1620
1944.258
Charger
Unidentified maker
1689-1705
1951.597
Ring
Unidentified maker
1600-1712
1952.331a
Jar
Unidentified maker
1650-1750
1954.22a
Jar
Unidentified maker
1650-1750
1954.22b
Charger
late 17th Century
1964.57
Girdle buckle
Everardus Bogardus
ca. 1703
1965.14
Coffeepot
Peter Van Dyck
ca. 1710-1725
1972.26
Saltcellar
Unidentified maker
ca. 1673
1974.12
Colonel Gerardus Beekman, MD (1653–1723)
Evert Duyckinck III
ca. 1710-1720
1978.59
Spider skillet with lid
Unidentified maker
1700-1800
2477
Snuff rasp
Elie Nadelman
1700-1725
INV.743
Snuff rasp or nutmeg grater
Elie Nadelman
1775-1825
INV.748
Jug
Unidentified maker
ca. 1600-1750
INV.6509
Scoop
Elie Nadelman
ca. 1700-1800
INV.6548
Apothecary bottle with cover
ca. 1750
INV.14994ab
N Amsterdam, ou N Iork in Ameriq
Pieter Mortier
ca. 1700
PPAC.2020.1.1
Lace fragment
1675-1775
Z.158
Trivet
Elie Nadelman
1650-1750
Z.1223
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