Collection Highlights
Dr. John Cheesman and Family with Guests: Silhouette
1840
Z.2567
Black prepared paper cut-outs, laid on beige paper with graphite, brown ink and wash, and white gouache, laid on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Child; from disassembled Cummings album
Title
Half-Length Portrait of a Child; from disassembled Cummings album
Medium
Graphite on paper backed with blue album paper
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/8 x 1 9/16 in. ( 5.4 x 4 cm )
Description
Portrait
Credit Line
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number
1979.12a
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.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
