Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
Date:
ca. 1866
Object Number:
1921.20
Medium:
Steel
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Luce Center
Covered Wagon, Darlington, Durham, England
Object Number:
1947.350
Date:
1837
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and brown ink and wash on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.7 x 9.8 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm. R. Miller, 1887"
inscription: lower left: "Darlington/Durham/9"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in brown wash and black ink: "W R. Miller 1837 --"; inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Darlington, / Durham."
Gallery Label:
Darlington, County Durham, is eleven miles southwest of Staindrop, where Miller was born in 1818.
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriski
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
