Collection Highlights
Matthew Perry
Date:
ca. 1855
Object Number:
PR.012.2.787
Medium:
Daguerreotype
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Broken Ionic Column, from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.59
Date:
1818
Medium:
Watercolor over graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 4 1/2 in. ( 17.8 x 11.4 cm )
Marks:
inscription and date: lower left: "New York. 1818"
inscription: lower left: "Earl."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "New York. 1818."; signed below in graphite: "Earl."; various numbers in graphite in image
Description:
Architecture detail
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 Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
