Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.2
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman (Mrs. Belknap or Mrs. Robert Lenox?); from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.14d
Medium:
Graphite on paper squared for transfer backed with pink album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 13/16 x 4 in. ( 12.2 x 10.2 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Cummings"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "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. In the album, the subject (née Rachel Carmer) is incorrectly identified as "Mrs. Belknap."
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
