Collection Highlights
Framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier
Date:
1865
Object Number:
1947.47
Medium:
Albumen photograph, plant material, ink, silk ribbon, wood gilding
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sketch of Four Palm Trees; verso: partial male profile; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.51
Date:
c. 1828
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 3 in. ( 10.8 x 7.6 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left:"Cole"
inscription: lower right: "Reed St. Friday Evening"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Cole."; inscribed at lower right: "Reed St. Friday Evening"
Description:
Landscape detail
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
Provenance:
Collection of Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-1894)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
