Collection Highlights
Mayor George B. McClellan at the controls of the first subway train, October 27, 1904
Date:
1904
Object Number:
PR.020.90.1
Medium:
Silver gelatin print
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; verso: Portrait of a Woman (cut); from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.17d
Date:
1832
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 3 1/8 in. ( 9.8 x 7.9 cm )
Marks:
signature and inscription: lower center to right: "Cummings. Painted 1832"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed along lower border in graphite: "Cummings. Painted 1832"
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.
