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

Harper's Weekly|Charles Dater Weldon

December 29, 1888 · Wood engraving · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Harper's Weekly|Charles Dater Weldon

Date

December 29, 1888

Medium

Wood engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession