Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Standing Sailor Holding a Sextant, from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.35
Date:
c. 1820-25
Medium:
Brown ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 4 7/8 in. ( 22.2 x 12.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "E. C. Potter"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "E.C. Potter"
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.
