Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln
Date:
April, 1865
Object Number:
PR.011.10
Medium:
Albumen print, carte-de-visite photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Margurite
Object Number:
1935.85.3.31
Date:
1882
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 5 15/16 in. (20.6 x 15.1 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at center left: "Carroll BECKWITH / Andé / 1882"; at lower left: "Margurite"; at lower center-right, diagonally: ""Il n'est pas [j?s] qu'à La figure [lûte?] Maraud / Qui ne me [tame?] plaisir à voir" / Nille de la [Segline?]"
Description:
Margurite and Margot are probably the same woman.
See Beckwith Scrapbooks in NYHS Library: Volume 2, p. 86 (Peasant Girl at Ande)
Sketch from a bound album with 155 tipped in sketches by Beckwith.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
