Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bust Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.14b
Medium:
Graphite on paper with horizontal lines backed with blue album paper over a dusting of sanguine chalk
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 15/16 x 2 3/16 in. ( 7.5 x 5.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower left to right: ". . . bil Carter Mon. . ." (upside down)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower border upside down in graphite: "… bil Castor Mon…"[cut]
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.