Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1785-1789
Object Number:
1916.7
Medium:
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Portrait of a Woman, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: fragmentary sketch for an oval portrait
Object Number:
1979.36
Date:
c. 1820-25
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on card; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 11/16 x 3 3/8 in. ( 9.4 x 8.6 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Potter"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Potter"
Description:
Portrait
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 Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
