Collection Highlights
Fete to Lafayette
Date:
1824
Object Number:
PR.022.9
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Elaborate Burial Scene with Coffin Being Lowered into the Ground; affixed to verso: print of Columbia, South Carolina, State House
Object Number:
1945.580.62
Date:
ca. 1861
Medium:
Graphite on beige paper, with image cancelled with an X; verso has a print affixed
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 5/8 x 12 in. (21.9 x 30.5 cm)
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "W. Kehn. Cin. O."; at lower left: "not used --"; laid on verso silhouetted print of the New State House, Columbia South Carolina; inscribed at upper center in brown ink: "Columbia, South Carolina"; at upper right in graphite: "used"
Description:
Civil War Drawings Collection. Only verso print engraved for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 17 August 1861(XII:300):215.
Credit Line:
James B. Wilbur Fund
Provenance:
John T. Kavanaugh Collection, Rutherford, New Jersey, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
