Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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The Stairway of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City
Object Number:
X.304
Date:
1924
Medium:
Charcoal with stumping and black and white pastel on blue-gray paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. ( 31.4 x 46.4 cm )
mat: 16 x 22 in. ( 40.6 x 55.9 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "WH Shelton"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in black pastel: "W. H. Shelton"
Description:
Architecture/interior view
Gallery Label:
This is part of a series of twenty-one signed and dated drawings of the Morris-Jumel mansion.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
