Collection Highlights
A Song for the times, or John Brown
Date:
1860-1870
Object Number:
LIB.SY.B1860.104
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Seated Woman with Basket, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: couple in a landscape
Object Number:
1979.55a
Date:
c. 1815-20
Medium:
Watercolor over graphite on paper; graphite and crayon
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. ( 12.4 x 10.5 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "Earl"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right: "Earle"
Description:
Figure
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.
