Collection Highlights
Fort Hamilton Polka Redowa
Date:
1852
Object Number:
PR.020.1.1
Medium:
Color Lithograph.
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Luce Center
Horse Boat Built for Brooklyn, Fulton St. Ferry; from the disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.1a
Medium:
Watercolor wash over graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 4 3/4 in. ( 7.6 x 12.1 cm )
Marks:
signed: lower right: "Cummings"
inscription: lower left to right: "Horse[?] boat. built for Brooklyn, Fulton St ferry. / preceding Steam. probably about 1817."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right: "Cummings"; inscribed along lower edge: "From boat.built for Brooklyn, Fulton St. ferry. / preceding Steam. Probably about 1817."
Description:
Cityscape detail
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.
