Watercolor paintings and pencil sketches of Alaska created by Vincent Colyer in September-October 1869, which accompanied his report on Alaska native populations to the United States Board of Indian Commissioners. Images depict settlements, buildings...
Description:
Landscape painter Vincent Colyer (1825-1888), was an artist and United States government official. He created images of the American West, especially American Indian subjects, landscapes, and botanical specimens. In 1869 he visited Alaska on behalf ...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Baranof Island (Alaska), Belkofski (Alaska), Chirikof Island (Alaska), Isanotski Peaks (Alaska), Ketchikan (Alaska), Kodiak (Alaska), Kodiak Island (Alaska), Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska), Revillagigedo Island (Alaska), Roundtop (Alaska), Saint Paul Island (Alaska), Sanak Islands (Alaska), Shishaldin, Mount (Alaska), Sitka (Alaska), Unalaska Island (Alaska), Unga Island (Alaska), Unimak Island (Alaska), and Wrangell Island
Subject (Name):
Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819, Colyer, Vincent, 1825-1888., Holy Ascension Orthodox Church (Unalaska, Alaska), Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church (Kodiak, Alaska), Niagara (Steam frigate), Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡, St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska), and United States. Board of Indian Commissioners.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Sepulchral monuments, and Tlingit Indians
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the archi...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Homes and haunts, Nobility, Social life and customs, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Drawing of the front face of the chapel at Strawberry Hill, with quatrefoils and other Gothic elements present in the design. A scale bar in feet runs along the bottom of the image
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A pencil sketch of the southeast corner of Strawberry Hill, the home of Horace Walpole, shown with a tree along side the villa and a view of the grove of trees beyond
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
The collection consists of three drawings by Greville Rickard: "Sherry-Netherland Fire" (circa 1927, crayon on paper mounted on board, 51 x 34.5 cm.), "Residence of Dr. Charles V. Paterno, Greenwich, Conn." (circa 1937, ink on card, 56 x 32 cm.), and ...
Description:
Greville Rickard was born in Denver, Colorado, on December 8, 1889, the son of Stephen Rickard. He received a BS degree from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1912, and studied afterward at the Yale School of Architecture. Rickard prac...
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Paterno, Charles, 1878-1946, Martinot, Paul, and Rickard, Greville, 1889-1956.
One of a series of design drawings for a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; this drawing with scale and images of statuary and vases
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
