Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Lighthouse, New Haven, Connecticut
Object Number:
1953.232
Date:
1813
Medium:
Graphite and gray wash on paper mounted on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 10 in. ( 17.8 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower, ink: "Light house de New haven [?] 7bre 1813 [?]"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along lower edge outside image in brown ink: "Light house de new haven fiu[?] 7bre 1813 St Légan[?] et Jhon Straker."
Description:
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
