Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Luce Center
John Rubens Smith (1775-1849) Reclining, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: two female figures (cut)
Object Number:
1979.56b
Date:
c. 1815-20
Medium:
Watercolor over graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. ( 9.5 x 18.4 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower left: "John R Smith by Earle"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower left in graphite: "John R Smith by Earle"
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 Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
