Collection Highlights
Portrait of two girls
Date:
Object Number:
PR.012.1.326.Box12
Medium:
Ambrotype
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Luce Center
Fan
Object Number:
1955.46b
Date:
ca. 1880
Medium:
Ivory, silk, paint, metal
Dimensions:
closed: 14 x 1 x 1 in. ( 35.6 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Fan with ivory guards and sticks, ivory-colored silk chiffon leaf with nine blue birds in flight painted on it, and metal handle with ivory-colored silk tassel.
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this fan was given to her mother, Anne Loundes Langdon Townsend, by her stepfather, Philip Schuyler.
Credit Line:
Gift of Marchesa Anne Pellegrini-Quarantotti
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
