Collection Highlights
Memorial sample card
Date:
Object Number:
1947.490a
Medium:
Watercolor and hair on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Coast Scene, Newport, Rhode Island
Object Number:
1955.121
Date:
1874
Medium:
Black ink and graphite on gray paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. ( 27.3 x 19 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: upper: "Coast Scene, Newport, R.I./5 x 4 Paint 20 x 16/Composed Augt 23d 1874"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left outside image in black ink: "No"; along lower border in graphite: "fine for wrecked vessel because introduced in place of left hand rock only a little / further into picture -- ...with broken masts..."; at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "No. 1000 Gems / Coast Scene Newport, R.I. / 5 x 4 Paint 20 x 16. / Composed Augt 23d 1874."
Description:
Seascape
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
