Collection Highlights
Life studies of the Great Army
Date:
1876
Object Number:
PR.002.Album383
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Bust Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.28c
Date:
Early 19th century
Medium:
Graphite on paper, its verso dusted in sanguine chalk, backed with yellow album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 2 1/4 in. (7.6 x 5.7 cm)
Description:
Portrait
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.
