Collection Highlights
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
Date:
1697
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Benjamin.Bullivant
Medium:
Pen and ink on paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.12g
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 5/8 x 3 5/16 in. ( 11.7 x 8.4 cm )
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at top in graphite: "Richardson on the Theory[?] / of Painting …[illegible]/ {?]97 / Pliny -- Philostratus"
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.
