Gates
1500-1899
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Gates
1500-1899
Physical Qualities
Wrought iron, Weight (each half): 1200 lb.
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Harry P. Whitney
Object Number
1942.65-66
Received as "Inner Doors, Fencing and Gate from Fifth Avenue House of Mrs. Harry P. Whitney" and described in Board of Trustees minutes as "the Palazza [sic] Doria gates and 300 feet of fence now belonging to the Whitney Mansion on Fifth Avenue."
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1942; estate of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney); entrance gates from the Harry Payne Whitney house on Fifth Avenue, New York; from the Palazzo Doria, Genoa, Italy
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., NY, April 30, 1942, lot 1403, p. 129.
Wayne Craven, “Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities,”
New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, pp. 51, 82.
On View at the BMA
