Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
William Walton Reading
Object Number:
1935.85.2.289
Date:
c. 1877
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 13/16 x 3 11/16 in. (14.8 x 9.4 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at lower right: "CB"
Inscribed in graphite in sketchbook, below drawing: "WALTON"
Description:
Recto: Sketch of a man's head, looking down at a book.
Verso: Sketch of an arm and hand holding a staff? stick? (Same arm of figure in 1935.85.2.294)
Drawing from a bound album of 308 tipped in works by Beckwith.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
