1835 · New-Have
by [Yale University Art Gallery
New-Have: Printed by J. Peck, 1835. 22pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped, spine perished. Light scattered foxing. Good. Lists forty-three paintings, mostly portraits of New England worthies, many associated with Yale. The majority of the entries are accompanied by biographical remarks upon the subjects, with some notes on the painters, copyists, and provenance. The longest entry is for the famous group portrait of Bishop Berkeley and his family by John Smybert. Other American painters represented in the collection at this early date are Mouldrop, the Earls, Jennys, and numerous examples by Jocelyn and S.F.B. Morse. The Yale Art Gallery, founded when John Trumbull donated more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution to the college in 1832, is the oldest university museum gallery in the western hemisphere. The original building, designed by Trumbull, was razed in 1867 to make way for larger premises. RINDERKNECHT 3552. (Inventory #: WRCAM49057)