Collection Highlights
Declaration of Independence
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1776.4
Medium:
Paper, broadside
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Profile of a Man's Head , from a disassembled album
Object Number:
1953.287h
Medium:
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
overall: 4 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.
Inscriptions:
Inscribed above image in charcoal: "héraclite."; below image upside down: "Démocrite"; along lower border in brown ink: "Donné Par Mr Melaspine."
Description:
Figure detail
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
