Collection Highlights
Twenty-third Street west of Sixth Avenue
Date:
1900
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fire Scene
Object Number:
1943.393
Medium:
Oil on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. ( 57.2 x 41.9 cm )
Marks:
Signature: LRC : "Ricd. W. Rummell"
Label: Dealer's label: "F.W. Lincoln and co./Manufacturers of/[cut off]"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower in brown oil: "Rich'd W. Rummell"
Gallery Label:
This painting depicts a spectuacular late nineteenth-century fire scene of the destruction of a five-story corner building and a towering adjacent structure. The site is not identified.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
