Collection Highlights
Seated Man Writing, from the Economical School Series
Date:
c. 1810-14
Object Number:
1953.274f
Medium:
Black chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on light blue paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Trade Sign
Object Number:
2002.1.2213
Date:
1992
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
16 x 8 3/8 x 1/8 in.
Description:
Reproduction chomolithographic tin sign; scene of a girl in a red floor-length coat with black fur trim carrying a basket of holly and brown paper wrappped packages standing in the snow in front of a house. It reads at the top in red "Merry Christmas", and at the bottom in black "Compliments of the Season/ Desperate Enterprises/ Wadsworth, O." Formerly F-44.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
