The New-York Historical Society is grateful to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for its award of $43,050 to support the production of Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville, a groundbreaking catalogue and accompanying gallery exhibition that will introduce the public to Anne-Marguérite-Joséphine-Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (1771–1849), an important traveler-artist working in America during the pivotal early decades of the nineteenth century. 

This important grant will allow the New-York Historical Society to publish a catalogue of the Baroness Hyde de Neuville's astute watercolors and drawings, which captured an incomparable visual diary of life in New York and along the eastern seaboard of the United States, and offers fresh insights into early-nineteenth century American art and New York history. The catalogue will also include rare glimpses of the region’s landscapes and geographical features—including one of the earliest depictions of the north side of Montauk Point and many representations of the waterways, including some looking toward Long Island, and harbors surrounding Long Island, New York City, and the Hudson and Mohawk river.