Collection Highlights
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Date:
ca. 1845
Object Number:
PR.012.2.885
Medium:
Daguerreotype
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bust Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.23h
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with pink album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 2 7/8 in. ( 8.3 x 7.3 cm )
Marks:
signature (?): lower left: "ToS"
Inscriptions:
Signed at the lower left in graphite: "TSC (monogram)"
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.
