Collection Highlights
Framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier
Date:
1865
Object Number:
1947.47
Medium:
Albumen photograph, plant material, ink, silk ribbon, wood gilding
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fan: Les Tuileries, 1810; landscape scene
Object Number:
INV.8640
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Wood, paper
Dimensions:
closed: 8 1/2 x 1 x 1 in. ( 21.6 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm )
Marks:
printed: on obverse of leaf: "LES TUILERIES / 1810"
printed: on reverse of leaf: "CAFÉ / MARTIN / NEW-YORK" and "FRANCOLIN, GILET & CIE. / Eventaillistes, PARIS"
handwritten in pencil: on paper tag attached to fan: "GIFT OF / I. V. COX"
Description:
Advertising fan with light yellow painted wooden guards and sticks with gold stamped decoration; color-printed paper leaf with view of the Tuileries Gardens with multiple figures on obverse, and inscription "CAFÉ MARTIN NEW-YORK" on reverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
