Collection Highlights
Corcoran Legion Fifth regiment. Col. William McEvily. A few good men are wanted to fill up Capt. Wm. L. Monegan's company. This is a splendid opportunity for young men to join a Crack Regiment.
Date:
ca. 1862
Object Number:
PR.055.3.189
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.10a
Medium:
Graphite on paper, its verso dusted with sanguine chalk
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/8 x 2 11/16 in. ( 8.6 x 6.8 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Thomas Cummings"
Inscriptions:
Verso signed vertically at left in graphite: "Thomas Cummings"
Description:
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.
