Collection Highlights
Dish: footed compote with cover
Date:
1825-1845
Object Number:
1936.693ab
Medium:
Glass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
View Across the Great Basin of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
Object Number:
1968.49
Date:
1893-1894
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, white priming, oil paint, pastel, and graphite on paper mounted on canvas (removed from stretcher)
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 29 1/16 in. (40.6 x 73.8 cm)
Marks:
Signed at lower left in blue pastel: "Lydia Field Emmet."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in blue pastel: "Lydia Field Emmet."
Description:
Architecture
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. James Ketchum Smith
Provenance:
Commissioned by McKim, Mead, & White; in Emmet's account book for 1894; donated by the wife of James Ketchum Smith, a later partner of Lawrence White, son of Stanford White, and a prominent architect in the firm.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
