Collection Highlights
The Rail Candidate
Date:
1860
Object Number:
PR.010.1860.Rail
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Five Figures, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: sketches of crenellations
Object Number:
1979.54
Date:
c. 1815-20
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink over graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. ( 17.1 x 26.4 cm )
Marks:
initial: lower right: "E."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: "E."
Description:
Figures
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
