Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.2
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Charles Francis Cummings (1823-1831)
Object Number:
1979.29
Date:
c. 1825-27
Medium:
Black chalk on gray paper laid on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/8 x 8 in. ( 23.2 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "Charley"
inscription: on album leaf: "Charles Frances Cummings / 1823-1831"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right on mount paper in black chalk: "Charley."
inscription: on album leaf: "Charles Frances Cummings / 1823-1831"
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 Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
