METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
EIGHTH
ANNUAL REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION,
May, 1878.
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EIGHTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION,
May, 1878.
No. 128 West 14th Street, NEW YORK. OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY, 1879.
President : JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON.
Vice-Presidents : WILLIAM C. PRIME, D. HUNTINGTON.
Treasurer : F. W. RHINELANDER.
Secretary : L. P. DI CESNOLA.
Assistant Secretary : THOMAS BLAND. BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
EX-OFFICIO :
THE PRESIDKM . VICE-PRESIDENTS, TREASURER AND SECRETARY. THE COMPTROLLER OP THE CITY OF NEW YI THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS. THE PKI IF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 1879. RICHARD BUTLER, THEODORE WESTON, WILLIAM L. ANDREWS.
FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 1880. JOHN Y. A. WARD. FREDERIC E. CHURCH, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR.
FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 1881. HENRY G. MARQUAND, RICHARD M. HUNT, ROBERT GORDON.
FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 188a. S. WHITNEY PHOENIX, SALEM II WALES, F. W. STEVENS.
FOR Till TERM ENDING MAY, I>SS;. S. L. M. BARLOW, WILLIAM W. ASTOR, SAMUEL P. AVERY.
FOR THE TF.RM ENDING MAY, 1884. RllHERFURD STUYVESANT, WI1.1.1AM E. DODGE, Jx. JOSKIMI II. CHOATB,
For i in TERM ENDING MAY, 1885. SAMUEL GRAY WARD. ORGE WM. QURTIS, ROBERT HOB, J«. STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Executive Committee. WILLIAM E. DODGE, J*. WILLIAM W. ASTOR, HENRY G. MARQUAND, RUTHERFURD STUYVESANT, ROBERT HOE, JR. WILLIAM L. ANDREWS. JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON,^ WILLIAM C. PRIME, D.HUNTINGTON, \ Ex Officio. F. W. RHINELANDER, L. P. DI CESNOLA,
Auditing Committee. SAMUEL GRAY WARD, ROBERT GORDON, JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
SUB-COMMITTEES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Finance Committee. WILLIAM E. DODGE, JR. WILLIAM W. ASTOR, F. W. RHINELANDER, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.)
Gift and Loan Committee. ROBERT HOE, JR. WILLIAM C. PRIME, L. P. DI CESNOLA, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.)
Exhibition Committee. WILLIAM C. PRIME, ROBERT HOE, JR. D. HUNTINGTON, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.)
Supply Committee. HENRY G. MARQUAND, RUTHERFURD STUYVESANT, WILLIAM L.ANDREWS, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.)
Building Committee. F. W. RHINELANDER, WILLIAM W. ASTOR, HENRY G. MARQUAND, I. I. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.) REPORT.
To the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Trustees of the Association for the year ending May, 1878, respectfully report: The receipts during the year have been as follows: Cash on hand at the beginning of the year, . $3,080 57 Subscriptions to funds, paid in, . . . 5,100 00 Annual Subscriptions, ..... 3,760 00 Exhibitions, . . entrance money, $1,273 75 Castellani Loan Exhibition, " . L705 25 Sales of Catalogues, Museum, . . 693 55 " " Castellani Loan Exhibition 279 60 " Photographs, . . . 118 05 4,070 20 Department of Public Parks, accoi int of appropriation, 1876. • $2,4H 20 1877, . . L3,335 96 1878, . 2,529 67 18,279 83 Loans Payable, • • 3,505 25 Receipts for the year $37,795 85
The expenditures have been as follows: Rent • $9-333 33 General Expenses, 7,221 99 Salaries, ..... 3,000 00 Fire Insurance, 2 years, 2,695 13 Taxes, ..... • 3,442 i5 Gas and Coal, .... 586 60 Printing, Catalogues. Photographs, Sta- tionery, &c, • L376 85 Alterations and Repairs. 63 K)c 527,719 24 Interest, (balance), . , 548 07 Cesnola Collections, mainly on account of p ur- chase of second collection, 6,1 iS 04 Show Cases and Furniture, 1S1 89 Castellani Loan Exhibition, . , , , 2,613 45 Cash on hand, May 1st, 1878, 615 16 ' ' 1537,79 5 85 6
The present financial condition of the Museum is as follows: Total Subscriptions to Fund, paid, . . $321,675 06 Donations of Works of Art, value, . . 74,140 50 Loans Payable, 3>505 25 Sundry Accounts, 9 58 $399,330 39 Paid for Paintings, Drawings, &c, $145,494 74 Works of Art, Donations, . 74,140 50 Cesnola Collections ($17,000 still due), , 121,866 98 Kensington Reproductions, 3,160 76 Etchings, 3,248 39 Show Cases 9,169 30 Furniture, . 1,432 84$358,5i3 51 General expenses and repairs, (balance), . . 40,201 72 Cash on hand, May 1st, 1878, 615 16 $399,330 39
The history of the Museum during the past year fur nishes abundant reason for congratulation. In their last report the Trustees stated their desire to make prominent the educational importance of the institution. This im portance has been made manifest by the large attendance on free days of the general public, by the constant use of the privileges of study and copying by the Art students to whom they are freely given, by the use which has been extensively made of the Museum for ideas and models by artizans, by the increasing interest visible throughout the country in Art products, either ornamental alone, or unit ing ornament with utility, and notably by the importance which the Cesnola Collection has acquired during the year, and which has directed toward it the attention of scholars in all countries. The publication and extensive sale of General di Cesnola's interesting and valuable account of his explorations in the Island of Cyprus, has contributed much to this importance. In their last report the Trustees announced the purchase of the second Collection of Cypriote antiquities made by General di Cesnola, and the reception and arrangement for exhibition of that portion of it consisting of the gold and other treasures found in the vaults of the temple at Curium. The entire purchase included an immense num ber of objects of ancient art, packed in more than two hundred cases and hampers. There being no room in the Fourteenth Street building for the unpacking and exam ination of these objects, they have until recently remained unopened in the basement of the building, with the above exception. The Curium treasures, thus shown to the public for the first time in more than two thousand years, attracted the attention of all lovers of art by the beauty of many of the articles. Messrs. Tiffany & Co. of this city were authorized to make reproductions of some of the finest specimens of old jewelry, and the necklaces, brace lets, rings and other beautiful works in gold which they have made in fac simile have been widely scattered, con veying in many directions the ideas and instruction of Phoenician and Greek artists. While these old forms of beauty thus revealed to modern eyes, were sources of general gratification, archaeological students recognized in the Curium treasures a field of investigation hitherto unexamined because practically un known. Styles of art, forms of decoration, methods of manufacture, without example in former collections of antiquities, arrested attention as they indicated a period of art, apparently either Phoenician or Archaic Greek, which had not before been placed under the eyes of modern scholarship. Among the many engraved objects in gold and stones were specimens which take rank as without equals of their class in former discoveries. The sard en graved with the story of Boreas and Orithyia was pro nounced by the highest authorities in Glyptic Art "perhaps "the most precious example of Greek Art just emerging "from the .Archaic stage hitherto brought to light;" a calcedony engraved with the Rape of Proserpine was 8 ranked as a gem which may " safely be placed at the head "of all that is known in the Archaic style;" while the dis covery of the Curium treasure was regarded as "a true "revelation of the history of the Glyptic Art in its rise "and progress from the earliest times down to the begin- "ning of the fifth century before our era." Peculiar styles of decoration, unlike anything before known as Phoenician or Greek, had been observed on gold bosses or circular objects in the first collection and these styles were found extensively illustrated in the diadems, plaques, mouth pieces found with the dead, circular and other golden orna ments, in which the second collection is very rich. Many statues in the Museum, belonging to the first collection, were found to have portions of dress, belts and other articles of apparel, ornamented with the circular bosses or "buttons," indicating the use of some of the specimens found. Attention was directed toward these peculiar decorations and the class of Art to which they pointed as among the early influences affecting Greek Art history. Additional interest was given to them when the dis coveries of Dr. Henry Schliemann at Mycenae were pub lished in Europe and America, accompanied by numerous illustrations from photographs of gold and other objects. While these marvellous treasures were exciting the atten tion of European scholars, and were regarded as works of an art and an art-period wholly unknown and elsewhere unillustrated, the}' were at once recognized by American scholars to be, in great part, local examples of the same school illustrated in the Cesnola Collection by the numer ous examples referred to. These are in fact the same ob jects, in gold and in pottery, with the same decorations, in the same styles of manufacture, and obviously products of the same workmen and the same art-period. The import ance of the Cesnola discoveries which exhibited these ob jects, and in some cases showed their uses, illustrated on life- size and smaller statues, w.is immediately manifest, and they have at once become an important aid to archaeologists in the effort to explain local discoveries like those at .Myccn.e. 9 When the Cesnola Collections came to America, the idea was reiterated in Europe that sending them here was equivalent to burying them again from the world. What ever be European ideas on this subject, Americans are well aware that, in all departments of art and archaeology, American scholars are numerous, able and laborious. It is also true that American art-study advances with a free dom from pre-judgment and old theories which some Eu ropean schools cannot exercise. The ruts in which archae ological research is too apt to be directed are not so deep, if they exist at all, in American roads of investigation. The contributions of American scholarship to modern science are neither few nor unimportant, and are abundantly recognized and valued by scholarly minds in other parts of the world. It may prove well for the cause of general knowledge that the new fields of art and ethnological investigation opened by the Cypriote discoveries should be entered first by a class of students who have no prejudices in regard to one or another nationality of ancient artists, or school of arts, and no predisposing theories in favor of one or another people as the founders of ancient arts. But it is no less the duty of the Museum to see to it that the Cypriote antiquities should not even seem to be buried here. Many hundred specimens of the highest im portance and value are without example elsewhere. These specimens throw light on Phoenician, Greek, and all ancient art history. They enable scholars to study with more effect such discoveries as those of Dr. Schliemann at His- sarlik and Mycenae. They should therefore not be suffered to remain in our cases for the use of Americans only, but should be published for the use of scholars everywhere. The position of Cyprus in the ancient world has suddenly come to be regarded as of the deepest interest. Phoenician, Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic, Cypriote, Archaic and more mod ern Greek inscriptions, Assyrian, Egyptian, Phoenician, Cypriote and Greek works of art, attest the presence in Cyprus ot more or less of the various civilizations, lan guages and minds of every one of the great families known 10
to ancient history. From 30,000 to 50,000 different works of the hands of these various families of men, illustrating their ways of thinking, living and acting, have come into our possession, and are exhibited in our galleries. Cer tainly no argument is needed to impress on members of this institution and the American people the duty of pub lishing the more important of these inscriptions and works of art, as aids to the investigations in which all modern civilized nations have such profound interest. At the date of the last report, the Trustees informed the members of the arrangements made with Signor Alessandro Castellani for the loan to the Museum of his collections of Ancient Art and Italian Majolicas, then lately shown at the Philadelphia Imposition. Signor Castellani loaned the collections to the Museum by a written agreement, the terms of which provided that the loan should be for six months, or longer if both parties so agreed; that the Museum should "advertise the collections and charge for admissions; the proceeds of the same, and of the sale of catalogues, to be divided equally between Signor Castellani and the Museum;" the expenses of transportation to New York and thence to Liverpool, all packing, marine insur ance, printing, and other expenses to be paid out of the receipts; the marine insurance to be for a sum not ex> ing 400,000 francs; the Museum to be responsible for the safe keeping, employment of day and night watchmen, and other care as for their own collections, but not to insure against loss or damage by fire. The Museum had the re fusal of the purchase ol the two collections at the price of ^30,000 for each, and in case of effecting a purchase, the owner's half of the profits of the exhibition were to go toward the purchase money. Phe Museum agreed to en deavor to raise money for tin- purchase of one or both collections. Under this uent the collections have been on ex hibition for a period of about nine months. Phe Trustees took measures to inform themselves ol the probable value of the collections as soon as they came to the Museum, 11 and while a valuation could only be a matter of estimate it became evident that they would not be justified in asking the public for monies to purchase the collections at the prices named by the owner. The fact also that they had recently purchased the second Cesnola Cypriote collection, including the treasures of Curium, made it less practicable to attempt the purchase of another collection of ancient objects, and their attention was therefore directed solely to the Italian Potteries. They resolved to endeavor to raise a sum sufficient to justify them in the hope that the owner would accept it when offered for that portion. To this end they organized an effort commencing in New York and extending throughout the country, which included per sonal application to patrons of art, appeals through the press to the general public, enlisting the aid of art associa tions and of particular localities in large towns and cities by engagements for the exhibition of collections from our Museum in such places should they contribute to the Castellani purchase. The exhibition was extensively ad vertised and widely noticed in the public press which lent its aid freely in the endeavor to secure the collection. During the first six months of the exhibition the charge for admission required by the agreement was fixed at 25 cents; but in the Fall the Trustees suspended this extra charge and for three months opened the collection to all visitors of the Museum, crediting the Castellani account with all the monies received for admissions to the Museum, except on Museum free days, when of course the agreement required them still to charge for admission to these collec tions. This arrangement continued till the close of the exhibition. While the exhibition of these works of art has been of great value and highly appreciated by a portion of our citizens, and the Trustees congratulate themselves on hav ing had the opportunity to show them, they did not prove as attractive to the public as had been anticipated. Whether from lack of interest in the subjects illustrated, or from the fact of their exhibition to millions of visitors 12 in Philadelphia, the number of persons admitted during nine months to the exhibition was only 14,282. All the efforts to raise money for the purchase of the Italian Potteries were unsuccessful, and the Trustees were compelled to inform the owner that they could not hope to make the purchase. In February last they received from him a suggestion that they should raise what money they could and communicate the amount to him for his consideration. At about the same time a generous lady in this city, not hitherto a donor to the Museum, volun teered to the Trustees an offer to contribute $10,000 toward the purchase of either or both the collections. Impelled by this munificent proposal, the Trustees made another effort to raise such a sum as they could with pro priety offer to Signor Castellani, but this also was wholly unsuccessful. They therefore with great reluctance aban doned all hopes of ownership, and the collections were shipped to Europe on the second day of March last. The Treasurer's report shows that the joint expenses, including the return to Europe, will slightly exceed the receipts from the exhibition. The total expenses have been $4,300.82, besides a small sum still due to the pack ers; against receipts for admissions $3,570.50, for catalogues $822.15, a total of $4,392.65. While it was the object and desire of Signor Castellani to sell his collections, as it was the hope of the Trustees to be enabled to buy one or both of them, it is proper to ex press the indebtedness of the Trustees and the public to him for his very liberal loan of these valuable collections, his permitting them to remain in our hands for so long a time, and for the opportunity thus afforded our visitors of unining the very rare and instructive objects of ancient and modern art which compose them. It had been the expectation of the Trustees that the cases containing the remainder of the second Cesnola pur chase would remain unopened until the removal to the Central Park, where more room could be afforded for the work. There are more or less duplicates in various depart- 13
ments of art in the collections, and many others will prob ably be found when the second comes to be incorporated with the first. These duplicates will form small but valua ble assortments of objects not now in the possession of any other museums in America or Europe. These can not be selected until the entire Cypriote collections are opened, examined, catalogued and compared, specimen with specimen. To accomplish this requires a vast amount of labor and careful study. A final catalogue can only be the result of years of application to the work. Nor could it be accomplished in the roughest outline, without the personal supervision of the explorer, who alone could add to each article a statement of the place where and the attendant circumstances and accompanying styles and objects of art with which it was found. The lease of the Fourteenth Street premises was to terminate on the 1st of May, 1878. The new building in Central Park not being yet in condition to receive the Museum, it seemed desirable for the Trustees to renew the \ lease of the present building for one year, which was done at a reduced rate. The gallery formerly devoted to the " Collection of paintings by old Masters" had been used for the exhibition of the Castellani Collections. When they were sent to Europe, the Trustees, having this room unoccupied, and no longer expecting to remove immediately, reconsidered the question of unpacking the remainder of the Cypriote cases and hampers, and decided to go on with the work and complete the Cesnola collection as a unit. General di Cesnola having returned to America during the past year, and having, as Secretary and one of the Trustees, entered actively into the service of the Museum, generously offered to take charge of the work, which was accordingly referred to a Committee of the Trustees of which he is chairman. All the cases (except those con taining marbles) have been opened, and their contents crowd the large gallery and adjoining rooms to their full capacity. Phe work, necessarily slow in any event, is 14 greatly impeded for want of room. Its progress involves a complete descriptive Catalogue of each object in both the first and second collections. The magnitude of the work becomes more manifest as case after case is opened, and the importance as well as the number of the objects in the new collection become visible. New families of art, hitherto without illustration in our own or any Museum, appear in great numbers of examples. Very many of the objects appear to the ex plorer himself almost as discoveries, since they were packed by him without examination at the place and time of their exhumation in Cyprus. The removal of the adhering earth from the surface of vases reveals in some instances decorations before unknown, which add great importance to the collection, sometimes serving as keys to entire series of objects before classed only by theory as Greek or as Phoenician. It is probable that the cases now under exami nation will add not less than 10,000 or 15,000 new speci mens to the Museum shelves, consisting of objects wholly new in shape, decoration or character to the eyes of the modern world. All labor of the Museum in work of this kind is per formed by Trustees, whose only return is in the satisfaction derived from the knowledge that they are contributing to the great purpose of educating their fellow-citizens. But it is manifest that the mere mechanical labor necessary in preparing a catalogue of from 30,000 to 50,000 objects, with accurate descriptions, is more than can be accomplished by any Committee of the Trustees in a very long period of months, unless they devote their entire time to the work, to the abandonment of their private business. The new building in the Central Park, erected by the city, and intended for the occupation of this .Museum, is now rapidly approaching completion, and only the final details remain to be perfected. 'Phe cost ol the building has been kept strictly within the amount of the appropria tion, and a small balance still remains available. No pro vision having been made for equipping the building with 15 cases, furniture, &c, and fitting it for occupation, an addi tional appropriation has just been authorized by the Legis lature for that purpose, and for the removal of the collec tions to their new quarters. If all goes well, the transfer will be made, and the collections re-arranged and again ready for exhibition to the public in the spring of next year, though it may be found expedient to defer the actual re-opening till the fall. When this change to the new building is made, the Museum, by the terms of the agree ment with the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks, will become practically free to all, subject only to the reservation of such days as may be devoted by the agreement to the use of members, students, artists or other persons, on such terms as may be directed by the Trustees. The revenue now derived from the admission of visitors will thus be practically cut off. The appropriation by the city for maintenance of this Museum and that of Natural History has been continued for the year 1878, though on a reduced scale, but hopes are held out that it may yet be made up to the usual sum. The building of a Museum in the Central Park, as an addition to the attractions of that popular and delightful place of resort, and the offer to the Museum of a place of deposit there for its treasures, indicates an appreciation by the City and the State of the importance of this among the educational institutions of the metropolis and the Empire State. But the institution, rich in art treasures, and ri valling in sonic respects the museums of the old world, has few visible me.ins of support after accepting the home offered it, except the insufficient allowance lor maintenance made by the city, and which maybe at any time with drawn in a sudden fit of economy. While some of its ex penses will be diminished, others will be greatly increased. 'Phe distance of the new building from the residences and places of business of many oi the trustees will make it difficult for them to continue that personal attention to its various departments which is now given by them in the 16
Committees among whom the work is divided. The single item of transportation of articles borrowed for the loan collections will probably be doubled, and this is no small sum in the annual expenses. The Trustees would press this subject on the attention of the members. The Museum is founded. It has already, through the liberality of its friends, come to possess a large amount of "works of modern and ancient art. It has im pressed its influence on the country in a rapid advance in artistic tastes, which dates its origin exactly with the first exhibitions of this Museum. It has benefitted the indus trial arts, and added to the means of employment of artizans, and.to the wealth of importers and manufacturers by creating a market for beautiful works of art which scarcely existed before the Museum began its educational exhibitions. In a former report the Trustees directed attention to the fact that in a single year the British Gov- rnment had made grants to British institutions for the purchase of art objects amounting to a total of .£275.436. The acquisitions of the Museum of Art have been wholly made by private subscriptions among its members and friends. The Trustees now appeal to them to consider seriously the benefits which it has conferred on the people, and the plain necessity of placing it beyond danger of being compelled to shut up its treasures for lack of means to meet the necessary expenses of maintaining and exhib iting them. The total number of visitors during the year has been 41,674, a considerable falling off from the previous year, when the number was very much enlarged by the Centen nial Exhibition. In June last the Trustees accepted with regret the re signation of William J. Hoppin as Secretary, which had been in their hands since his appointment as Secretary of Legation in London. The vacancy was filled by the ap pointment of General L. P. di Cesnola, whom they gladly welcomed among the working Trustees as ex-officio a member of the Executive Committee. 17 The Trustees cannot conclude their report without the expression of their profound sense of the loss which the Museum has sustained during the year in the death of their associate, Theodore Roosevelt, a loss which is felt by many other public institutions whose objects are, like ours, the benefit of the people. In all efforts for the public good, Mr. Roosevelt was deeply and practically interested. In the Museum he was from its foundation a laborious member of this Board, giving his personal attention to its affairs, seeking its prosperity, and faithfully working in its service. For its present prosperous condition, the Insti tution owes much to his wise counsels and unflagging labor from week to week and year to year as a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee. By order, JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON, President. LIST OF DONATIONS OF WORKS OF ART, &c.
DURING THE YEAR 1877-8.
GENERAL L. P. DI CESNOLA. Negatives of Photographs taken by him in Cyprus.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. A number of Photographs.
HERBERT R. HOUGHTON. Water Color Drawing by Collingwood Smith; Bronze Fox, by Pautrot, of Paris.
G. L. LESPINASSE. Stone from the Ruins of the " Casa del Gubernador " at Uxmal, Yucatan.
WM. C. PRIMK. Electrotypes of Objects in the Cesnola Collection.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Bronze Medallion of Washington.
MESSRS. ROUSE & TURNER. Pottery Barrel with Relief Ornaments, made by David Henderson, Jersey City Pottery, N. J., about 1830.
MRS. EDWIN WHITE. Oil Painting, '"Phe Antiquary." bj Edwin White. LOAN EXHIBITION, 1877-78.
NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS.
MRS. R. B. ALDEN. Confessionals, &c, from Ghent ; carved in oak ; early 17th century.
W. L. ANDREWS. Oil Paintings; Oriental Porcelain; Water Colors and Drawings.
PROF. ANTHON. Oil Paintings.
D. MAITLAND ARMSTRONG. Old Italian Carved Wood Bellows.
SAMUEL P. AVERY. Chinese and Japanese Porcelain, from the Avery Collec tion.
S. P. M. BARLOW. Oriental and European Porcelain; Oriental gilt Bronze Bowl with carved stand and cover; Bowl of Soo-Chow Lacquer, on porcelain; Watches of Gold and Enamel; Carving in Ivory; Cinque-cento Crystal Work, &c.
R. M. P> \KNES. Carvings in Ivory; Ancient Coins; Bronzes; Stone Hatchet Heads.
ESTATE OF THE LATE FRANCIS BARRETTO. Oil Painting—"Landscape;" Artist, Cuyp.
W. II. IP Hi 1
Japanese I acquer Work.
CAPT. CHAS. P. W. BEHM. Weapons of several Oriental peoples. 20
MRS. COL. BERDAN. Silver Bell, made by Benvenuto Cellini for Pope Clement the Seventh.
HEBER R. BISHOP. Oil Paintings. » Miss BISSELL. Decorated Spanish Fan ; Old Swedish Fan ; Horn deco rated Lacquer.
MRS. WM. T. BLODGETT. Marble Statue—" Semiramis ; " by Story; Oil Paintings, Oriental Porcelain, &c, &c.
DR. O. BRONSON. Fragment of a Fresco from the City of Pompeii.
WALTER BROWN. Oil Paintings, hy Old Masters.
E. I.. HURI.INGAME. Chinese Porcelain and Enamels.
SIONOR AI.F.SSANDRO CASTELLANI. Collection of Antiquities, Marbles, Bronzes, Gold and other Personal Ornaments, Engraved Gems, Maiolica, fcc
W. L. CHAMBERLAIN Portraits in Oil by Robert le Pevre, of the Empresses Josephine and Marie Louise.
HENRY CHAUNCEY. Marble Statue—"Medea," by Story.
T. M. COAN. Encaustic Painting, Artist unknown.
H. COGNIAT. Collection of Arms and Armor of various Periods and Nations; Decorated Potter), and Miscellaneous Objects of Art. 21
CHARLES M. CONGREVE. Electrotype of the "Milton Shield."
JOHN CROPPER. French Cannon, brought to the United States during the Revolution, by the Marquis de Lafayette.
GEO. W. CURTIS. Marble Bust of Sumner, by Millmore.
DR. DE HAAS, U. S. Consul at Jerusalem. Vase from the Land of Moab.
MRS. C. L. DERBY. Oil Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci.
WM. P. DOUGLAS. Oil Paintings, by Old Masters.
A. W. DREXEL. Oil Paintings, Old Manuscripts.
AMORY EDWARDS. Oil Painting—" Bacchus," by Rubens.
GEO. W. EGLESTON. Two Small Japanese Shrines with Idols; Hindoo Jew elry, &c.
JAMES FAIRMAN. Oil Paintings.
CHAS. DE FORESTA. Oil Painting, by Noel Coypel.
GEORGE C. GENET. Se\ res Porcelain, Cups, Saucers, &c.; time Louis XVI.
WILLIAM GIROD. Chinese Bowl.
ROBERT GORDON. Japanese Bron/e Fountain; Pair of Old Italian Caned Wood bellows; Carved Ivory Tankard; One Antique red Ivory Jewel Box. HENRY GREENFIELD. Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Louis XVI.
Miss E. GRISWOLD. Egg-shell Cup, Saucer and Cover ; Carved Sandal Wood Box ; Japanese Boat, &c.
MRS. W. S. GURNEE, JR. Italian Peasant Gold Jewelry, set with Rough Pearls and Garnets; Enameled Painting, same setting, French.
MRS. DAVID P. HALL. Portraits, by Copley.
EASTBURN HASTINGS. Japanese Bronzes; Porcelain and Pottery; Lacquers; Carvings in Ivory, &c.
MRS. A. F. HEARD. Cloisonne Enamel Tablet, Vases, &c.; Pair of Bronze Vases; Bowl and Cover, White Jade; Porcelain Vase with Stand, &c.
A. F. HIGGINS. Ivory Carving—" The Lion Hunt ;" by F. Behl, of Nu- remburg ; Oil Paintings, by Meyer Von Bremen; Wood Carving.
MRS. JOSEPH HOBSON. Oil Paintings, by Old Masters.
ROBERT HOE. Oil Paintings.
ROHKRT HOE, JR. Ivories in the Collection at Munich, reproduced in ( by J. Kreitniayer, of Munich, Bavaria; Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Persian and Turkish Embroideries.
MRS. ROBERT HOE, JR. Specimens of Porcelain. 23
H. H. HOLLY. Maiolica Ware—Holy Water Cups, Vases, Jugs, Plates, and Tiles.
MRS. S. W. HOPKINS. Bronze Group.
MRS. HOSACK. Pair Sevres Vases; Two Copper Bas-reliefs.
H. R. HOUGHTON. Boxes of Malachite and Lapis-lazuli, Italian Cameos, &c.
Miss J. HUNT. Oil Paintings.
LEAVITT HUNT. Oil Painting.
RICHARD M. HUNT. Two Oil Paintings, by William M. Hunt; Pair Persian Candelabra in Bronze; Missal, Silver repouss£ binding; Bellows in carved wood, &c.
W. H. HUNTINGTON. Miniature Portrait of General Washington.
J. AUGUSTUS JOHNSON. Oil Painting, "The Loves among the Flowers." Spanish School.
JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON. TWO large Old Italian Vases made at Pesaro; Marble Statue, "Cleopatra," by W. W. Story.
SHELDON KELLOGG. Marble bust of "Andrew Jackson," by Hiram Powers.
JOHN S. KENNEDY. Oil Painting, " The Threshing Floor," by A. Tiratella.
Miss KIND. Oriental Vases; Two Lacquer Boxes; Bronze Ox. u GEO. R. KIRTLAND. Stone Idol; Bronze Bell.
THOMAS W. KNOX. Bell, Benvenuto Cellini, Copy; Bell from Lassa-Thibet; Spear-Head from a Tumulus.
JOHN LAFARGE. Japanese Embroidery; Lacquers; Pieces Ivory, and Soo-Chow Lacquer Bowl.
CHAS. CARROLL LFE, M. D. Parge Bowl, Old Japanese Kaga Ware; Plate, Modern Japanese Kaga Ware; Plate, Old Satsuma Ware; and Tray of Modern Satsuma Ware.
COL. E. P. C. LEWIS. Marble Group—" Latona," and Medallion of Gen'l Lee, by Rinehart.
MRS. EUGENE TILLOTSON LYNCH. Statuettes, Bow Porcelain.
GEO. W. MAHONEY. Marble Bust of the Roman Emperor Adrian.
CHAS. S. MARSHALL. Pair Sevres Vases.
DR. EDWIN MAYNARD. Oil Paintings, by Old Masters.
ANDREW MCCALLUM. Collection of Laces and Embroideries.
REV. D. MCVICKER. Japanese Bronze Object.
MRS. R. B. MINTURN. Wood Carving.
MRS. V. C. MONTGOMERY. Marl.I,• Croup—" Indian and Squaw," by Randolph Rogers. ALEX. MORTEN. Carved Ivory Powder Horn.
J. L. MOTT. Oil Painting.
MRS. T. H. NEWBOLD. Collection of China Ware, comprising Figures, Cups, Saucers, Plates, &c.
Miss M. R. OAKEY. Ivory Box, carved in Hong Kong, specimen of the best Chinese Work.
MRS. DR. WILLARD PARKER. Marble Bust—"Franklin."
T. W. PKARSALL. Cloissonne Enamels; Pair Soo-Chow Lacquer Vases; Porcelain and Jade Objects.
RICHARD D. PERRY. Pair Soapstone Vases and Centre Pieces; Carved Tortoise Shell Box; One Ivory Carving.
B. PHILLIPS. Specimens of Japanese Porcelain.
WM. C. PRIME. Pottery and Porcelain, from the Trumbull-Prime Collec tion; Enamels; Collection of Coins, &c.
R. H. PRUYN. Japanese Wood and Ivory Carvings; Lacquers; Water Color Drawings; Samples of Japanese Paper, &c.
PROF. R. PUMPF.LLY. Rock Crystal; Jade; Old China Cloisonne Enamel; Jap anese Lacquers, Japanese Pron/.e buttons, Ivory Carv ings; Cold Ornaments; Wood and Horn Carvings, i\c. 26
M. A. RENO, U. S. A. Oil Paintings, by H. J. Dewez and Godfrey Schalken.
JAMES HAMPDEN ROBB. Marble Bust—"Henry Clay," by Clevinger.
M. E. SANDS. Marble Bust of " Napoleon I," by Canova.
SAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN. Representative Collection of Rare Ancient Coins, gold silver, and copper.
E. J. SOLIGNY. Bronze Medallion of Wm. Cullen Bryant.
P. R. STRONG. Paintings by Correggio and Guerin.
RUTHERFURD STUYVESANT. Carvings in Ivory; Rare Old Enamels on Metals, &c; Carved Wood Tankard, Norwegian; Plateau, Silver Re pousse Enamel, with Lapis-lazuli Panels.
D. L. SUYDAM. Oil Painting.
MRS. WM. TILDEN. Oil Painting, by Tiepolo.
MRS. M. W. THOMPSON. Antique Clock.
MONTGOMERY H. THROOP. Ancient Illustrated Manuscript.
Lucius TUCKERMAN. Bronze Vase.
MRS. SMITH 'P. VAN BUREN. Paintings, by De Dreux, Karel du Jardin, and others.
FRANK VINCt Fragments of Statues (of Buddha), from tin great Temple of Nagkon Wat, in Eastern siam ; Engravings, See, 27
M. WARD. Oil Paintings ; Dresden Vases.
J. W. WEBB. Collection of Ancient Marbles, and Copies of Ancient Marbles, comprising Busts of Celebrated Roman Empe rors, Heroes, Orators, &c.
WM. H. WEBB. Marble Statue—"Venus," by Professor John Halbig.
F. H. WEEKS. Old Spanish Picture.
CHAS. STUART WELLS. Antique Statuette.
JOHN E. WILLIAMS. Painting, by Luca Giordano.
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE GENERAL FUND. 1877-7S.
Astor, Wm...... $2,000 00 Garrison, C. K...... 1,000 00 Dodge, Wm. E., Jr...... 500 00 Marquand, Allan, ...... 500 00 Muftoz, J. M...... 250 00 Warne, Miss Elizabeth, ...... ' 250 00 Beekman, Jas. W...... 200 00 Langdon, Mrs. Woodbury, ..... 200 00 Woerishoffer, Chas. F...... 200 00 $5,100 00 Total Subscriptions brought forward, . . 316,575 06 $321,675 °6 MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, May ist, 1878.
PATRONS.
Appleton, D. F. Fahnestock, H. C. Astor, J. J. Field, Benjamin H. Astor, W. Field, Cyrus W. Astor, W. W. Fiske, Josiah M. Auchincloss, John Fogg, Wm. H. Bard, John Garrison, C. K. Barlow, S. L. M. Gordon, Robert Barney, A. H. Gray, John A. C. Bennett, J. Gordon Griswold, Chas. W. Bonner, Robert Hartley, Marcellus Bristed, J. J. Astor Hewett, Abraham S. Brown, Alex. Hargreaves Hoag, Daniel T. Bryant, Wm. C. Hoe, Robert Cesnola, L. P. di Hoe, Robert, Jr. Chauncey, Henry Hunt, Richard M. Church, F. E. Huntington, Collis P. Clark, Edward Jaffray, Edward S. Clark, J. G. James, D. Willis Clews, Henry Jesup, Morris K. Colgate, James B. Johnston, James B. Colgate, Robert Johnston, John Taylor Cooper, Edward Kemp, Edward Cornell, J. B.. Kemp, George Cutting, Robt. L. Kennedy, John S. Detmold, C. E. Lawrence, T. N. Dillon, Sidney Loubat, J. F. Dodge, A. G. P. McCormick, C. H. Dodge, Wm. E. Marquand, Frederick Dodge, Wm. E., Jr. Marquand, Henry G. Drexel, J. W. Matthews, Edward Duncan, Wm. B. Milbank, Jeremiah Edgar, Jonathan Mills, D. O. Eno, A. R. Morgan, E. D. Evans, Thomas W. Morgan, J. Pierpont 29 Morgan, J. S. Stokes, James Morton, Levi P. Stuart, Alexander Opdyke, George Stuart, Robt. L. Paton, William Stuyvesant, Rutherfurd Phelps, William Walter Suydam, D. L. Phillips, John C. Tilden, Samuel J. Phillips, L. J. Trevor, John B. Phoenix, S. Whitney Tuckerman, Lucius Pinchot, J. W. Van Alen, J. H. Potter, Howard Vanderbilt, Wm. H. Prime, Wm. C. Van Rensselaer, Alex. Reed, G. F. T. Waite, Chas. C. Rhinelander, Wm. C. Wales, Salem H. Rowell, Geo. P. Ward, Samuel G. Sherwood, John H. Watt, Thomas Sloane, William Wetmore, Geo. P. Slosson, Mrs. Annie T. Wetmore, Samuel Smith, Chas. S. Wheeler, N. Stevens, F. W. Winthrop, E. L. Steward, D. Jackson Wolfe, Miss C. L. Stokes, Anson P. Zborowski, Martin FELLOWS IN PERPETUITY. Arnold, B. G. Cary, W. F. Arnold, Richard Caswell, Ph., Jr. Aymar, J. B. A. Chauncey, Frederick Barlow, S. L. M. Choate, Joseph H. Barney, A. H. Church, William C. Beckwith, N. M. Clift, Smith Bennett, J. Gordon Colgate, James B. Bishop, Heber R. Colt, Harris Bonner, Robert Constable, James M. Brown, Alex. Hargreaves Cook, C. 'P. Brown, J. Crosby Curtis, George W. Brown, James M. Debbas, Abdo Brown, Stewart Deforest, Henry G. Bruce, D. W. Devlin, Jeremiah Bull, I. M. Dexter, Henry Butler, Richard Dickey, ("has. D. Butler, Robt. Gordon Dodge, C. Hoadley Cannon, Le Grand B. Dodge, William E., Jr. 30
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FELLOWS FOR LIFE. Anderson, Henry H. Draper, W. H., M.D. Andrews, Wm. L. Foster, J. P. G. Avery, Samuel P. Godwin, Parke Bailey, N. P. Goodwin, James J. Baker, H. J. Green, Andrew H. Baldwin, M. G. Guion, Wm. H. Beekman, J. W. Hart, J. M. Blakeman, Birdseye Hatch, S. D. Bliss, Cornelius N. Hatfield, R. G. Blodgett, D. C. Hayden, Levi Booth, Alfred Healy, A. Buell, James 1 lolland, Alex. Brinckerhoff, E. A. Howes, R. W. Butler, B. F. Howland, Meredith Butler, Charles Jacobi, A., M. D. Carleton, Geo. W. Johnson, H. W. Charlier, Elie Knapp, Hermann, M.D. Colgate, Chas. C. Patarge, John Colyer, Vincent Langdon, Mrs. Woodbury Cox, Henry T. Lanier, Charles Dennistoun, Wm. Livingston, John A. Dickerson, Edw. N. Lord, George De Forest 32
Ludlow, E. H. Smith, Isaac T. Ludlum, James Smith, Wm. Alex. Macdonough, A. R. Somerville, James Macy, Wm. H. Spaulding, H. F. Man, Albon P. Stewart, John A. Marie, Peter Stockwell, A. B. Marshall, Chas. H. Sturges, Fred'k Mitchell, Roland G. Jr. Stymus, W. P. Morgan, Henry T. Swan, Otis D. Mount, R. E. Taaks, W. G. Musgrave, Thos. B. Tailer, E. N., Jr. Nichols, W. D. Thurber, F. 1). Nichols, W. S. Turner, Chas. A. Oakey, Mrs. S. W. Turner, Wm. J. O'Hara, Chas. E. Upjohn, Richard Pancoast, Geo. Van Duzen, Mrs. Selah Parsons, John E. Vaux, Calvert Peabody, A. J. Vermilye, J. D. Phillips, John C. Weeks, John A. Pondir, John Wendell, Jacob Post, Edwin A. Weston, Theodore Schaus, Wm. Wheeler, E. P. Sherwood, John Willis, Benjamin A. Sinclair, Samuel Woerishoffer, Chas. F. Sloan, Samuel Bloor, A. J. Stebbins, H. G. Brown, Walter Sturgis, Russell Cesnola, L. P. di Thompson, Launt Comfort, Geo. F. Ward, J. Q. A. Dix, Hon. John A. White, R. Grant Johnson, Eastman Whittredge, W.
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Claghorn, James P. Marsh, Hon. Georgi I Corcoran, William W. Moran, Hon. Benjamin Duncan, B. Odell Perkins, Charles C. Ebers, Prof. George Redgrave, Richard, R. A. Hall, Isaac II. Wallace, Sir Richard Lepsius, Prof. Karl Richard Wallis, George ANNUAL MEMBERS. OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, May ist, 1878.
Abbott, Frank, M.D . Borland, R. B. Cottenet, F. Abbott, Josiah H. Bostwick, C. B. Cowdrey, N. A. Adams, Rev. Dr. W. Bosworth, J. S. Cristadoro, J. Agnew, Alex. McL. Boyd, Jas. R. Crosby, Rev. Howard Agnew, C. R., M. D Bridge, W. F. Cruger, S. V. R. A;tken, John Brinsmade. J. B. Curphey, James Alexander, James A Bronson, F. Curtis, Geo. N. Alexander, H. M. Brookfield, W. Curtis, Jeremiah Allen, Franklin Brown, Josiah T. Curtis, Hon. W. E. Alliger, E. Brown, Lewis B. Dacosta, Chas. M. Alsop, J. W. Brown, Walston H Dana, Chas. A. Andrews, E. W, Brownell, S. B. Darling, A. B. Anthony, H. T. Bumstead, F. S.,M.D .Darrow, William Appleton, G. S. Burrill, John E. Dash, Bowie Appleton, W. H. Cameron, R. W. Davies, Julien T. Appleton, W. W. Canda, Chas. J. Davies, W. G. Arnold, P B. Carman, Louis P. Davison, Chas. A. Arnold, J. H. V. Carter, O. S. Davol, John Astor, W. W. Carter, Walter S. Day, Henry Aubert, Eugene Christern, F. W. Deforest, R. W. Auchincloss, Hugh Clark, B. S. Delano, Warren Babcock, S D. Clark, Geo. C. DeLaunay, Victor Bachman, S. Clark, H. Devereux, J. H. Bacon, Francis M. Clark, Lot C. Develin, J. E. Bailey, Latimer Clarke, Wed. C. Dix, Rev. Morgan Bailey, W. H. Cleveland, Cyrus P)ouglass, A. E. Baker, Francis Cochrane, J. W, Dows, David Baker, P. C. eshall, E. W. Dunham, G. H. Bangs, F. N. Cogswell, W. L. Dunlap, Robt. Barnes, H. W. Cole, Hamilton Dun, R. G. Barr, William Cole, Wm. A. Duryea, Wright Bartlett, W. Coles, W. F. Earle, Ferd. P. Bates, L. M. Colgate, A. W. Eaton, D. B. Beeckman, Gerard Eaton, Sherburne B. te, Mrs. Bowles Bell, Clark Edwards, J. Colgate, Mrs. Chas. C Bell, Isaac Edwards, Walter, Jr. Colgate, S. J. Bergen, Zacheus Colles, Geo. W. Betts, Fred H. Elicit, A. B. Collin, John B. Berts, William Elgar, James Coinpton, A. T. Billings, O. P. C. Elliott, F. B. Congreve, Chas. M. Bissinger, P Ellis, Tohn W. Constant, Sam'l S. Plague, Giles Ely, Richard S. Cooke, John Blennerhassett, H. Ely, Z. S. Cotheal, Alex. I. Emott, James 34
Engel, Edward Haydock, G. G. Lane, Geo. W. Evans, Walton W. Haydock, Robert Langdon, Chas. H. Farnham, H.P., M.D. Hendricks, Edward Langdon, Woodbury Ferguson, Edward Hendricks, Joshua Larocque, Joseph Ferguson, Walton Heroy, J. H. Lee, C. Carroll, M.D. Fernbach, Henry Higginson, J. J. Lenox, James Field, W. Hildreth Higginson, T. Leslie, Frank Fisk, Clinton B. Hincken, Edw. Lewis, Charlton T. Foote, Chas. B. Hinton, J. H., M.D. Lichtenstein, Paul Foshay, J. W. Hobson, Joseph Livingston, Wm. L. Foster,FrankP.,M.D.Hoe, Henry Lockwood, B. Foulke, Thomas Hoe, P. S. Low, A. A. Fowler, Ed. P. Hoffman, J. O. Low, A. A., Jr. Fox, B. N. Hoguet, Henry L. Lowrey, Jas. P. Freeborn, G.C., M.D.Holland, J. G. Ludington, Chas. H. French, F. O. Holland, Thos. Lutkins, T. L. Frothingham, O. B. How, Benjamin W. McCready, W. L. Fry, Chas. M. Howe, H. A. McDaniel, W. V. Gager, O. A. Howells, H. C. McGinnis, John, Jr. Gay, Joseph E. Hoyt, A. M. McKim, Haslett, Gebhard, Edward Hoyt, Charles A. Mallory, C. H Gibbs, T. K. Hubbard, T. H. Manice,Wm. D. F. Goddard, F. N. Hunt, S. I. Marburv, F. F. Goddard, Warren Hunt, Wilson G. Markoe',T. M..M.D. Green, Ashbel Iselin, F. T. Marshall, Wm. Greenwood, Isaac J. Ives, Howard Masterton, A. Grosvenor, J. B. M. Jackson, J. C. Matthiesen, F. O. Gunther, F. F. Jackson, R. C. Maxwell,W.H.,M.D. Gunther, W. H. Jackson, W. H. Meyer, Isaac Meyer, L. H. Haigh, J. L. Jaques, Eden S. Meyer, T. F. H. Haight, Mrs. D. H. Johnson, John E. Miller, Geo. M, Haight, H. J. Johnston, Chas. Miller, Jacob F. Johnston, John Haines, J. P. Miller, James Hall, P. D. Jones, David Mills, James M. Hall, Valentine G. Jones, Geo. Mills, Samuel M. Hammond,W.A.,M.DKalbfleisch, C. H. Minturn, Miss E. F. Hanemann, John T. Kelly, Eugene Minturn, J. W. Hardy, Chas. F. Kelly, Robert Mitchell, Edward Harris, Sam'l L. Ketchum, Enoch Moir, James Harris, Mrs. S. L. Keyes, Geo. Morris, Henry L. Harrison, Joseph G. Kidder, Wm. F. Mosle, Geo. Harrison, Miss M. J. King, Albert G. Mulholland, P W. Hart, benjamin Kingsland, Anibr. C. Muller, A. 11. Hasell, Bentley D. Kingsland, Ani.C, Jr Muller, A. IP, Jr. Hauselt, Chas. Kingsland, W. M. O'Gorman, R. Havermeyer,Theo.A. Kohn, Adolf Olmstead, Dwight 11. Hawkins, D. A. Kursheedt, A. E. Orr, A. E. Hayden, Mrs. Peter Lacy, John 35
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