Collection Highlights
I Knew Him Horatio
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.010.1864.Horatio
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.21f
Medium:
Graphite on paper, its verso dusted in sanguine chalk
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 2 7/16 in. ( 8.3 x 6.2 cm )
Description:
Portrait, possibly of artist Thomas Birch (1787-1851)
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.
