Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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Luce Center
Study of Sculpture Bust of a Child on a Pedestal; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.4a
Date:
1835
Medium:
Brown ink over graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 5/16 in. ( 7 x 5.9 cm )
Marks:
date: lower right: "1835."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "1835."
Description:
Bust
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 Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
