Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Museum Collections
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Portrait of a man standing | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.124 |
| Powder Horn: Lawrence Schoolcroft (FW-200), with Carving Unfurled, and a Vignette of a Bas-Relief on the Battle Monument at Oriskany, New York; verso: sketch of the same Powder Horn | 1895 | 1907.36.174 | |
| Mill near Newcastle-on-Tyne, England | 1839 | 1955.128 | |
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Caroline Durand (1826-1902) | c. 1827 | 1932.223 |
| Rocks and Trees in Valley, Weehawken, New Jersey | 1857 | 1928.102 | |
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea), Havell plate no. 336 | 1831 | 1863.17.336 |
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Levi Butler: Silhouette | 1793 | Z.2406 |
| Study of a Tree Trunk with Lichens and Fungi | 1808 | INV.14853 | |
| Study for the Altria Murals: Page Boys in a Lunette | 1982 | 2008.16.12 | |
| Collection of 22 Historical Sketches of American Revolutionary War Subjects | 1908-1911; 1923 | INV.14707 |
