Administered by Franklin & Marshall College Phillips Museum of Art P.O. Box 3003 Lancaster Pennsylvania 17604
Located Franklin & Marshall College Buchanan Lancaster Pennsylvania
Date:
Cast 1895. Installed 1895
Notes:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
Image on file.
New York Times, Aug. 22, 2003, A21.
(On book held in figure's proper left hand:) The Law of Her Majesty's Colony of New York (On side of chair, figure's proper right side:) 1717 (On side of chair, figure's proper left side:) 1700 (On front of base:) Property of/Brevet Major General/John Watts de Peyster (On back of granite base:) ABRAHAM DEPEYSTER ALDERMAN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1685; MAYOR OF THAT CITY, 1691-95. MEMBER OF EARL BELLOMONT'S COUNCIL, 1698, ASSISTANT JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, 1698. COLONEL COMMANDING, REGIMENT OF MILITIA OF CITY TRAINED BANDS 1700 CHIEF JUSTICE, 1700, PRESIDENT OF THE KING'S COUNCIL. AND THUS, ACTING GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, 1701. TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY, 1706-1721. BORN 8TH JULY 1657. DIED 2D AUGUST 1728. JOHANNES DEPEYSTER, COL. ABRAHAM DEPEYSTER'S FATHER WAS BURGOMASTER 1673 AND DEPUTY MAYOR NY 1677. JOHANNES DEPEYSTER, ANOTHER SON, MAYOR N.Y. 1698 ERECTED BY HIS GT. GT. GT. GRANDSON John Watts Depeyster
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Summary:
A seated portrait of Abraham de Peyster holding a book of New York law in his proper left hand. He is dressed in judicial robes and a wig, and is seated in a chair adorned with reliefs. On the proper left side of his chair is a relief of him on horseback reviewing his troops. On the proper right side of his chair is a relief of a sailing ship of 1717. The sculpture rests on a granite base adorned with a bronze relief of crossed swords, a scroll, and a wreath.
