Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Portrait of Mistress Pratt Seated at a Table
Object Number:
1953.277
Date:
1808
Medium:
Graphite, gray wash, and watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right, brown ink: "mistress pratt at amsterdam/1808"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed below image a lower right in brown ink: "mistress pratt at amsterdam / 1808."
Description:
Portrait
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.
