Collection Highlights
"Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?"
Date:
Object Number:
PR.031.3
Medium:
Chromolithograph card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sketches of a Young Couple Embracing and Two Elder Women Talking; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.38
Date:
mid-nineteenth century
Medium:
Graphite on heavy paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 5 5/8 in. ( 7.6 x 14.3 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Stearns"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Stearns"
Description:
Half figures
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.
