Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Date:
1916-1922
Object Number:
1954.164
Medium:
Painted plaster
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Initial Letter "D"
Object Number:
1935.85.1.168
Date:
1878-1883
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on ivory paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (14 x 11.4 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at upper center: "1/2""; in graphite at right, below image: "C.B."; in graphite, centered below image, partially erased: "Make two plates-one an inch wide / and one 2 inches wide."; below, at lower center: "[?]7758- 2&3"; below, at lower center: "June 21"
Description:
See Beckwith Scrapbook in N-YHS Library, Volume 1, page 26.
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of albumn page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
