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Date:
ca. 1863
Object Number:
PR.055.3.105
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Study of a Tree Trunk; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.43
Date:
c. 1818-28
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. ( 18.7 x 21.6 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "W. G. Wall"
inscription: on back: "sketch by Mr. Wall"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "W G Wall."; verso inscribed at lower left: "Sketch by Mr. Wall"
Description:
Landscape
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:
Thomas Seir Cummings, New York City
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
