Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
View of a Scene with a Bridge, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: two female figures (cut)
Object Number:
1979.57
Date:
c. 1815-20
Medium:
Watercolor over graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. ( 18.4 x 12.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Earle"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Earle"
Description:
Townscape
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 Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
