Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Luce Center
Walter Cotton: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2405
Date:
1792
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. ( 32.1 x 19.4 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Mr Walter Cotton Long Meadow / December 1792"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Mr Walter Cotton Long Meadow / December 1792"
Description:
Silhouette: Life-size mask of male subject in right-facing profile; ink wash within graphite outline on cream paper with handwritten inscription 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.
