Collection Highlights
French press
1812-1819
1943.368
Mahogany, mahogany veneer; yellow poplar, white pine, brass, plaster
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Buttonwood Trunks, Catskill Clove, New York; verso: sketch of trees
Title
Buttonwood Trunks, Catskill Clove, New York; verso: sketch of trees
Date
1848
Medium
Graphite on gray-green paper
Dimensions
Paper: 14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Description
Landscape detail
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number
1918.82
Inscriptions
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Set"; at upper right: "9[encircled]"; at lower right: "9[encircled] / Button wood Trunks / Catskill clove Oct 1st 1848"
Provenance
Descent through the artist's family
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
