Collection Highlights
Manhattan Rifles!
Date:
1861-1865
Object Number:
PR.055.3.226
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.15a
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with pink album paper over a dusting of sanguine chalk
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. ( 9.8 x 7.3 cm )
Marks:
inscription: upper left: "May [Mary?]"
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.
