Collection Highlights
The Lost Cause
Date:
1871
Object Number:
PR.068.19
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Henry Inman (1801-1846); from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.18
Date:
1826
Medium:
Graphite and gray wash on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. ( 17.5 x 13.3 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "Cummings. Del. 1826"
inscription: on album leaf: "Henry Inman"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "Cummings. Del. 1826"; verso inscribed at lower center in blue pencil: "Inman"
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.
