The vigilant Stuyvesant's Wall Street gate

Quidor, John (1801-1881)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1863
Height:
68.9 cm  (27 1/8 in.)
Width:
87.3 cm  (34 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 61.79]Signed at lower center: John Quidor, Painter / 18[6]3

Description

Stuyvesant's trumpeter Antony Van Corlear blows a trumpet while seated on horse in the center; behind him stands Peter Stuyvesant on a peg-leg. Both returned from a victorious expedition against the Swedes on the Delaware in 1655. A group of people welcomes them.

People as subjects

Van Corlear, Antony (Musician)
Stuyvesant, Peter (1592-1672) (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Irving, Washington (Diedrich Knickerbocker). A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to end of the Dutch dynasty. Containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievments of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been, or ever will be published (New York: Inskeep & Bradford; Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep; Boston: Wm. M'Ilhenney; Baltimore: Coale & Thomas; Charleston: Morford, Willington, & co., 1809) vol. 2, 162. HathiTrust: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5fzy;view=1up;seq=168

Notes

The depiction seems related to Washington Irving's (Diedrich Knickerbocker's) History of New York, vol. 2, 162: "It was a pleasant and goodly sight to witness the joy of the people of New Amsterdam, at beholding their warriors once more returned, from this war in the wilderness. The old women thronged round Antony Van Corlear, who gave the whole history of the campaign with matchless accuracy ... The schoolmasters throughout the town gave holiday to their little urchins, who followed in droves after the drums, with paper caps on their heads and sticks in their breeches, thus taking the first lesson in vagabondizing. As to the sturdy rabble they thronged at the heels of Peter Stuyvesant wherever he went, waving their greasy hats in the air and shouting 'Hardkoppig Piet forever!'"

RIdIM record id

3450