Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Study of a Decorative Design with a Faun and Garland, Pompeii, Italy
Object Number:
1935.85.1.5
Date:
1878-1883
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 x 5 13/16 in. (9.5 x 14.8 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along upper edge in graphite: "black ground. Olive green faun. yellow [pipe?], tail and hair. gold [illegible] with / garland of green leaves."; at lower left: "Pompeii"; at lower center: "Pompeii"; color notations throughout sketch: "gold"; "green"; "gold"; "gold"
Description:
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of album page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
