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The New Home of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from "Harper's Weekly"

After Charles Dater Weldon American
Publisher Harper's Weekly American
December 29, 1888
Not on view
Images of five galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – a "Hall of Casts of Ancient Sculpture" at center, a "Gallery of Paintings, Catherine Wolfe Collection" at center left, "Reproductions of Gold and Silver Plate" at lower left, "Etchings and Drawings by Old Masters" at upper right, and "Egyptian Antiquities" at lower right. The views are surrounded by depictions of works in the collection that include vessels and sculpted heads from the Cesnola Collection, Persian tiles from a palace at Isfahan, Egyptian mummies, a minature portrait if George Washington, and a musical instrument.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The New Home of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from "Harper's Weekly"
  • Artist: After Charles Dater Weldon (American, Mansfield, Ohio 1855–1935 East Orange, New Jersey)
  • Publisher: Harper's Weekly (American, 1857–1916)
  • Date: December 29, 1888
  • Medium: Wood engraving
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 15 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (38.4 × 54.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Museum Accession
  • Object Number: Museum Accession.16
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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