Collection Highlights
Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow
1859
1941.1209
Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Wooded Landscape, from disassembled Cummings album
Title
Wooded Landscape, from disassembled Cummings album
Date
c. 1827-32
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 4 1/16 x 4 1/2 in. ( 10.3 x 11.4 cm )
Description
Landscape
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number
1979.48a
Marks
inscription: lower left: "Morton"
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "J Morton"
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.
