Collection Highlights
Seated Man Writing, from the Economical School Series
Date:
c. 1810-14
Object Number:
1953.274f
Medium:
Black chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on light blue paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sketchbook with 50 Folios, 6 blank, and endpapers (Views of the Lake Champlain Region, Vermont, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, the Delaware River, and Washington, D.C.)
Object Number:
1944.430.1
Date:
1815
Medium:
Watercolor, brown, and gray ink and wash, and graphite with scratching out on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (10.8 x 19.1 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed inside front cover along upper edge above black ink bust silhouette in brown ink: "46 Sketches in America, by George Heriot Esq'r. 1st Postmater General, Brit. America / Taken in 1815."; multiple brown ink inscriptions on the various folios
Description:
Sketchbook
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Provenance:
Stiles Stevens, Esq., London, 1944
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
