The fall of New Amsterdam / J.L.G. Ferris. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of The fall of New Amsterdam / J.L.G. Ferris. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The fall of New Amsterdam / J.L.G. Ferris.
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The scene centers on Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch director of New Netherland, at the moment in 1664 when English warships under Richard Nicolls appeared in the harbor and demanded that New Amsterdam surrender. Stuyvesant, with few means to resist, agreed to terms that September, and the town was renamed New York for the Duke of York. J.L.G. Ferris's painting was reproduced here as a color halftone for the Pageant of a Nation series, published in Cleveland in 1932. Because the picture is conjectural rather than drawn from life, it shows as much of the period's taste for dramatic history as it does documented events.
| Created / published | Cleveland, Ohio : The Foundation Press, Inc., c1932 July 28. |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Oil paintings Reproductions 1930-1940.Conjectural works 1930-1940.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | K17397 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation. No. 10. Copyright by The Foundation Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Subjects | Stuyvesant, Peter,--1592-1672. Surrenders--Dutch--New York (State)--1660-1670. New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,693 × 4,594 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225386 |
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