Collection Highlights
Ki On Twog Ky (also known as Cornplanter ) (1732/40-1836)
Date:
1796
Object Number:
1867.314
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Thomas Wadsworth: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2420
Date:
1793
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. ( 31.8 x 19 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Mr Thomas Wadsworth Farmington / November 1793"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Mr Thomas Wadsworth Farmington / November 1793"
Description:
Silhouette: Life-size (?) right-facing profile of male subject; ink wash within outline in graphite on paper with handwritten description below.
Gallery Label:
This profile portrait is one of about two dozen found among the papers of Benjamin Tappan, great-grandfather of the donor.
Credit Line:
Gift of John K. Wright, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
