Collection Highlights
Kast
Date:
1675-1690
Object Number:
1941.914
Medium:
Walnut, walnut veneer, elm, oak, ebony
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of George W. Newcombe (1799-1845); from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.25a
Medium:
Graphite on paper squared for transfer with impressed lines
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 2 7/8 in. ( 8.3 x 7.3 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "T.S.C."
inscription: lower left: "G. Newcombe"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "G. Newcombe"; signed at lower right: "T.S.C."
Description:
Portrait
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 Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
