Collection Highlights
Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Date:
1870-1879
Object Number:
PR.104.3
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
View of Sorrento, Italy, from below the Cliffs
Object Number:
1935.85.1.6
Date:
1878
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (9.5 x 14.9 cm)
Inscriptions:
Recto: Inscribed in graphite at lower right: "Sorrento / 19 Aprile / 78 / CB."
Verso: Inscribed in graphite at lower left: "Sorrento"
Description:
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of album page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Verso: Study of a woman carrying basket, walking up stairs.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
