Collection Highlights
At the Battle of Palo Alto
Date:
1846
Object Number:
PR.068.24
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman (Mrs. Embury?); from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.9c
Medium:
Graphite with stray blue watercolor on paper backed with gray album paper over a drawing
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 4 3/16 in. ( 13.3 x 10.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on related engraving: "Mrs Embury"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at middle right in graphite: "h J.[?] / C 10"
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.
