Collection Highlights
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
Date:
1835
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1835.49
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.14c
Medium:
Graphite and stylus on paper squared for transfer with graphite and blue pencil lines, backed with blue album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7.6 x 5.7 cm )
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.
