Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Long Island Scene with Windmill; verso: sketch of a steam vessel; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.2b
Date:
1818
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper squared for transfer in graphite; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. ( 12.4 x 18.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "T. S. C. [6?]"
inscription and date: lower right: "Long Island 1818."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Long Island 1818"; grid numbered along lower edge in graphite: "1"; "2"; "3"; "4"; "5"; "6"; signed at far lower right: "TSC"
Description:
Townscape
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.
