Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bust-Length Profile Portrait of a Man
Object Number:
1979.39a
Date:
c. 1826
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/16 x 3 11/16 in. ( 10.6 x 9.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "E. C. Potter A.N.A."
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "E.C. Potter A.N.A."
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 Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
