Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Title Page for Group of Drawings of the Human Figure ("Academies"?)
Object Number:
1947.363
Date:
1840
Medium:
Black chalk on gray paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 22 in. ( 71.1 x 55.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower left: "Drawings/of the/Human Fugure/from Life and the/Antique/by/W.R.Miller-Artist/Newcastle/1840"
inscription: lower left, ink: "No. 1"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at left in brown ink: "Drawings / of the / Human Figure / from Life and the / Antique / By / W. R. Miller -- Artist / Newcastle / 1840"
Description:
Figure
Gallery Label:
This study was the cover of Miller's drawing book while he was an art student at Newcastle.
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriski
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
