Collection Highlights
Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati
Date:
ca. 1802
Object Number:
1972.12ab
Medium:
Silk, gold, enamel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Man (Mr. Embury?); from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.25b
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 13/16 x 2 1/2 in. ( 7.1 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "T.S.C."
inscription: lower center: "Mr Embury"
inscription: on back: "Exact size / of Mr. Embury / picture"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "Mr Embury"; signed at lower right: "T.S.C."; verso incribed at lower center in graphite: "Exact size / of Mr Embury / picture."
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.
