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Unidentified, Burnham's Hotel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Unidentified

Burnham's Hotel

ca. 1845

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
63.5 × 76.2 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-134531

Burnham’s Hotel was built in the early nineteenth century near New York City. Hotels like this were popular with wealthy families, who enjoyed the open space a short distance away from the city. A book from the 1890s describes life in one of these luxurious hotels: “On each fine summer afternoon the spacious grounds were filled with ladies and children, who sauntered at their leisure, having no f…

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Registry history

  • ca. 1845 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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