Collection Highlights
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
Date:
1860
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1860.48
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Marine Scene with a Fishing Boat and Ship, from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.49
Medium:
Brown ink on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 in. ( 9.7 x 14.8 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Agat[e?]"
inscription: lower left: "Agate"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in brown ink: "Agate"; below in graphite: "Agate"
Description:
Marine
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 Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Provenance:
Thomas Seir Cummings
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
