Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
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Classification:
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Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 11/16 x 3 15/16 in. ( 11.9 x 10 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.12f
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "Cummings 1827"
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.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1827
eMuseum Object ID:
45024
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Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
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Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. ( 6.4 x 5.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.12e
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.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
45023
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The Schooner "Stafford"
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, black ink, graphite, and selective glazing pm paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/4 x 24 in. ( 47.6 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1927.139
Marks:
Inscription: Bottom right: "Schooner Stafford"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: "SCHOONER 'STAFFORD"'
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
45021
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Three Iroquois: Atotárho Protected by Black Snakes, Flanked by Deganawida(?) Offering Wampum and Hiawatha(?)
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Date:
c. 1827
Medium:
Watercolor, black and brown ink, and brown gouache over graphite on beige paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/16 x 16 3/4 in. (38.6 x 42.5 cm)
Description:
Iroquois folkart termed 'picture writing'
Credit Line:
Gift of Lansing Thurber
Object Number:
X.520[dup]
Marks:
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No. 2."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No. 2."
Provenance:
John Beechtree, Oneida Castle,N.Y., 1845; Lansing Thurber, Utica, N.Y., 1845-49
Bibliography:
Related to Cusick's 1827 booklet: David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (Tuscarora Village : Lewiston, Niagara, co. 1828, c1826; Lockport, N. Y. : Conley & Lathrop, printers)
Kasprycki, Sylvia S., and Feest, Christian, trans. "On the Trails of the Iroquois." Berlin: Nicolai, 2013.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
45020
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Old Houses, Coenties Slip, New York City
Classification:
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Date:
1866
Medium:
Black ink and graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/8 x 6 in. ( 11.1 x 15.2 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1943.493a
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in black ink: "Greynolds / 1866"; at lower center: "Old Houses Coentes Slip"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1866
eMuseum Object ID:
45019
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View up the Potomac from the Portico at Mount Vernon, Virginia
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Classification:
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Date:
1795
Medium:
Graphite on half of folded sheet
Dimensions:
folded sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 in. ( 31.8 x 20.3 cm )
Description:
Topographical view
Credit Line:
Gift of Reverend J.E. Strickland
Object Number:
1958.68
Marks:
inscription: lower center, on image page: "View up the Potomac from the Portico / of Mount Vernon"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along lower edge in graphite: "View up the Potowmac from the Portico / at Mount Vernon"
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family; the Reverend J.E. Strickland, Gouray Lodge, Jersey, Channel Islands
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
44998
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Studies of the Bridge over the Lehigh River, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Classification:
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Date:
1795
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 13 in. ( 20.3 x 33 cm )
Description:
Diagram
Credit Line:
Gift of Reverend J.E. Strickland
Object Number:
1958.66
Marks:
inscription: upper left: "Bridge over the Lehigh at Bethlehem. / of 5 arches"
inscription: lower left: "The beam B projects & is trussed up to C. - / D the stretching beams . . . / [etc.]"
inscription: lower right: "The pier filled up as far as marked /
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "Bridge over the Lehigh at Bethlahem. / of 5 arches --"; longer technical inscriptions
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family; the Reverend J.E. Strickland, Gouray Lodge, Jersey, Channel Islands
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
44993
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
View of Road Through Forest Being Cleared (Ballston Springs, New York?)
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Classification:
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Date:
c. 1794-95
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 12 1/2 in. ( 20.3 x 31.8 cm )
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Reverend J.E. Strickland
Object Number:
1958.64
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family; the Reverend J.E. Strickland, Gouray Lodge, Jersey, Channel Islands
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
44992
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Hudson Highlands Near Fishkill Church on the Road to Albany, New York
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Classification:
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Date:
1794
Medium:
Graphite on half of folded sheet
Dimensions:
folded sheet: 12 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. ( 32.1 x 20 cm )
Description:
Topographical view
Credit Line:
Gift of Reverend J.E. Strickland
Object Number:
1958.65
Marks:
inscription: upper left, in image page: "entrance into the highlands taken near / Fishkill Church on the road to Albany"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "entrance into the highlands, taken near / Fishkill Church on the road to Albany."; various annotations
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family; the Reverend J.E. Strickland, Gouray Lodge, Jersey, Channel Islands
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
44991
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sketch of a Tree Branch
Classification:
Date:
c. 1794-95
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. ( 22.5 x 19 cm )
Description:
Landscape detail
Credit Line:
Gift of Reverend J.E. Strickland
Object Number:
1958.62
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family; the Reverend J.E. Strickland, Gouray Lodge, Jersey, Channel Islands
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
44990
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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