Collection Highlights
Napoleon's Authorization for the Sale of the Louisiana Territory
Date:
April 24, 1803
Object Number:
MSS.Y1803
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Tree Stump, from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.34e
Medium:
Graphite on verso of printed heavy paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 8.6 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "888 [th?]"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: "888 ts."
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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
