Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
Date:
1835-1836
Object Number:
1858.3
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Head of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.26a
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with blue album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. ( 6 x 4.8 cm )
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.
