Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.1
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Four Standing Figures, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: sketch of two standing women
Object Number:
1979.55c
Date:
c. 1815-20
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink over graphite on paper; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 13/16 x 7 1/4 in. ( 12.2 x 18.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Earle"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Earle"
Description:
Figures
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.
