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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Cafferty, James H.,     Rosenburg, Charles,     Cityscape -- New York     Cityscape -- Street     Architecture exterior -- Commercial     Figure group     Portrait male -- Vanderbilt, Cornelius     Portrait male -- Little, Jacob     Portrait male -- Hudson, Frederick     Occupation -- Monetary     Occupation -- Vendor     Painting

Wall Street, Half Past Two, Oct. 13, 1857, (painting). Artist:  Cafferty, James H., 1819-1869, painter. Rosenburg, Charles, painter. Title:  Wall Street, Half Past Two, Oct. 13, 1857, (painting). Other Titles:  Wall Street, half past 2 o'clock, October 13, 1857, (painting). Dates:  1858. Medium:  Oil on paper. Dimensions:  17 7/8 x 14 in. (45.4 x 35.6 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) J. H. CAFFERTY & C. G. ROSENBERG, 1858 (On bottom:) WALL STREET, HALF PAST TWO. OCT. XIII. 1857 signed Description:  Historical painting depicting the turmoil on Wall Street on the afternoon of Oct. 13, 1857, when banks suspended specie payments, setting off a series of financial crises. The painting depicts throngs of people filling Wall Street, and two newsboys in the foreground rushing to make a sale. The view looks down Wall Street from William Street toward Trinity Church on Broadway. Three figures have been identified. The short man with sideburns at the extreme right is the financier Cornelius Vanderbilt. The promoter Jacob Little appears in the center in a light gray drover's topcoat. Frederick Hudson, the managing editor of the New York Herald, is the short stocky figure near the bearded man at the left. Subject:  Cityscape -- New York -- New York City Cityscape -- Street -- Wall Street Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Bank Figure group Portrait male -- Vanderbilt, Cornelius Portrait male -- Little, Jacob Portrait male -- Hudson, Frederick Occupation -- Monetary -- Banker Occupation -- Vendor -- Newspaper Boy Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 54.90.136 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Arnold, Edward W. C., New York, New York by 1935-1954. Remarks:  By Cafferty and Rosenburg. The painting is a preliminary sketch for one in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York (IAP record no. 36180610). References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 94. Hull, David Stewart, 1986. Hull, David Stewart, "James Henry Cafferty, N.A. 1819-1869," New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1986, pg. 49, 32-33. Illustration:  Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 95. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120892   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120892 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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