Collection Highlights
The Draft Riots in New York- The Battle in Second Avenue
Date:
1863
Object Number:
PR.020.100.4
Medium:
Wood Engraving
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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:
1979.14e
Medium:
Graphite and scattered brown watercolor on paper squared for transfer in graphite, backed with gray album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 5/16 x 2 11/16 in. ( 8.4 x 6.8 cm )
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "May"[?]
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.
