Collection Highlights
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
Date:
1835
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1835.49
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Draped Female Figure with Lyre
Object Number:
1935.85.3.120
Date:
1890
Medium:
Graphite, charcoal, pastel, and white wash(?) on blue paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/16 x 5 7/16 in. (21.1 x 13.8 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in pastel, mostly erased/rubbed off, at upper right: "[Mars?] / 90"
Description:
***Image should be switched with .3.121!
Same composition as 1935.85.3.121
Sketch from a bound album with 155 tipped in sketches by Beckwith.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
