Collection Highlights
Group of Chicago Zouave Cadets
Date:
Object Number:
PR.049.FF.MIL.CHIZOU
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Luce Center
Two Soldiers from Governor's Island Troops, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: sketch women in profile
Object Number:
1979.56a
Date:
1818
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink over graphite on paper; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. ( 16.8 x 12.2 cm )
Marks:
signature and inscription: lower left: "Earle Nature[Native?]. Earle."
inscription and date: lower left to center: "Gov'rs Island troops Earl. 1818."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed along lower border in graphite: "Gov.rs Island ropps Earl. 1818. / Earle Native. Earle."
Description:
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.
