Collection Highlights
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
Date:
1860
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1860.48
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Full-Length Portrait of Three Children Near a Garden Urn; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.6
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with blue album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 15/16 in. ( 19.4 x 15.1 cm )
Marks:
inscription: upper right: "H"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in a circle in graphite [cut]: "H"
Description:
Group 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.
