Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-225
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Engraving block
Object Number:
1936.479
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/8 x 3 x 7/8 in. ( 10.5 x 7.6 x 2.2 cm )
Marks:
impressed: on reverse: "V. GROTTENTHALER / PHILA."
handwritten in pencil: on reverse: "535 / 6.00 / J W Barber"
Description:
Rectangular wooden engraving block with image of four young men smoking and relaxing carved in relief.
Gallery Label:
Lockwood Sanford was a wood engraver active in New Haven, Connecticut, in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
