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Young Man with One Shoe Dancing; from disassembled Cummings album
Title
Young Man with One Shoe Dancing; from disassembled Cummings album
Date
1823
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on paper squared for transfer in graphite
Dimensions
Overall: 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.4 x 9.8 cm )
Description
Figure
Credit Line
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number
1979.3a
Marks
signature: lower left: "Cummings"
inscription and date: lower center to right: "Down Taw. / park. 1828"
Inscriptions
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Cummings"; inscribed at lower center: "Down. Taw."; at lower right: "park. 1828"
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.
