Appleton's Dictionary of New York and Vicinity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...Justinian and his Counselors." There is, too, an original study for a fresco in Paris, many feet long, filled with figures. In 1890 the Museum received many valuable additions. Among them was a large landscape by Augusts Francois Bonheur, known as the "Environs of Fontainebleau." The painting, which is probably the best work of Rosa Bonheur's brother now in this country, belonged formerly to the Stewart collection, and hung as a pendant to the "Horse Fair." It was sold for $18,000 at the Stewart sale to Mr. Stewart's niece. Her son presented it to the Museum. "Lachrymai," by Leighton; "Hurrah for the Good Ship Erebus " by Turner; and "The Edge of the Woods," by Rousseau, are noteworthy paintings, purchased for the Museum iu 1896. Leutze's " Washington Crossing the Delaware" was presented to the Museum by J. S. Kennedy in 1897. Turner's "Grand Canal at Venice" was bequeathed by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1899. The Egyptian collection presented by George F. Baker is one of the most attractive features of the Museum. It cost about $10,000, and includes several hundred mummy-wrappings of rich and beautiful colors. The Di Cesnola collection, now scattered under several heads, and exhibited in the same places that other objects of the same kind nre. consists of articles of all sorts found m the ancient cities and tombs of Cyprus. The statues are arranged according to their style of art, beginning with the early Egyptian and ending with the late Graeco-Roman. The terra cotta collection, numbering nearly 4,000 pieoes, consists largely of vases, of which no two, however, can be said to be exactly alike. The collection of glassware numbers about 1,700 pieces, and is of both Phosnician and Greek w...