Collection Highlights
Subway controller
Date:
1904
Object Number:
1922.103
Medium:
Silver, steel, ebony
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bust of an Egyptian Mummy; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.4b
Date:
1825
Medium:
Graphite on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 x 3 9/16 in. ( 10.2 x 9 cm )
Marks:
inscription, signature, and date: lower right: "Egyptian Mummy / Cummings 1825"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in graphite: "Egyptian. Mummy. / Cummings 1825"
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.
