Collection Highlights
Declaration of Independence
Date:
1820-1823
Object Number:
PR.221.44
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Title Page Vignette, Folio 1 in the John Ludlow Morton Album: Landscape with Rock Inscribed with the Names of 23 Artists
Object Number:
1944.365
Date:
1826
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 7 in. ( 21.6 x 17.8 cm )
Marks:
initialed and dated: lower right: "J L M 1826"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right outside image in graphite: "JLM -- 1826"; rock inscribed from upper left: "MARSIGLIA; AGATE; WALL; EDMONDS; ROGERS; WEIR; DURAND; WRIGHT; PROCTOR; FLAGG; EVERS; SULLY; HARVEY; INGHAM; MORSE; INMAN; POTTER; CUMMINGS; BENNET; COLE; DANFORTH; GRAIN; MORTON"
Description:
This study shows a rustic setting with a large rock on which the artist has inscribed the names of twenty-three artists.
Gallery Label:
This is the title page of a book of drawings assembled by John Ludlow Morton of sketches by various artist friends and individually presented to him for inclusion in this book of friends, conceived in a style similar to the seventeenth-century album amicorum.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
