Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Floral Bouquet with Yellow Tulip; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.60b
Date:
1817
Medium:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite with selective glazing on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/16 x 3 3/4 in. ( 7.8 x 9.5 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "T. S. C."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right outside image in brown ink: "T.S.C."; verso inscribed vertically at center in graphite: "Thomas Cummings. / 1817"
Description:
Still life
Gallery Label:
This watercolor 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.
