Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.10d
Medium:
Graphite with stray brown watercolor on paper backed with blue album paper
Dimensions:
3 x 2 3/16 in.
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.
