Collection Highlights
Get off the track! : a song for Emmancipation, sung by the Hutchinsons, respectfully dedicated to Nath.l P. Rogers, as a mark of esteem for his intrepidity in the cause of human rights
Date:
1844
Object Number:
LIB.M1622a.Hutchinson
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Young Man with One Shoe Dancing; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.3a
Date:
1823
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper squared for transfer in graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Cummings"
inscription and date: lower center to right: "Down Taw. / park. 1828"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Cummings"; inscribed at lower center: "Down. Taw."; at lower right: "park. 1828"
Description:
Figure
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 Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
