Collection Highlights
The Intelligence Office
1849
1959.46
Oil on canvas
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Luce Center
Sketch for a Christmas Card
Title
Sketch for a Christmas Card
Medium
Graphite and colored pencil on ivory paper.
Description
Sketch from a bound album with 155 tipped in sketches by Beckwith.
Credit Line
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Object Number
1935.85.3.19
Inscriptions
Inscribed in graphite at lower left: "CB"
Inscribed in graphite in sketchbook, below drawing: "Sketch for Christmas card sold to Prang"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.