Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Textile fragment
Object Number:
INV.1094
Date:
1780-1850
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 34 in. ( 86.4 x 86.4 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton textile fragment, printed in blue with repeating pattern of floral garlands around pastoral scenes; woman watering her garden with a man pushing a wheelbarrel filled with vegtables, man in a garden playing a bugle, shepardess seated with lambs and a dog.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
