Collection Highlights
An Address to the inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon slave-keeping
Date:
1773
Object Number:
LIB.Y1773.RushAddress
Medium:
Paper, book
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Portrait of Bertha Smith
Object Number:
1935.85.1.20
Date:
1878
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 5 13/16 in. (9.5 x 14.8 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at upper left: "Bertha Smith"; at lower left: "Carroll Beckwith"; at lower right: "Fountainbleu[?] / 28 Juillet / '78"
Description:
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of albumn page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Verso: Very incomplete sketch of townscape (?).
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
