Collection Highlights
Freedom to the Slaves
Date:
ca. 1865
Object Number:
PR.052.58
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Standing Male Figure, Hoboken; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.3b
Date:
1829
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 15/16 x 3 1/4 in. ( 12.5 x 8.3 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "[83?] Cummings"
inscription and date: lower right: "Hoboken 1829"
inscription: upper right: "D"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower left in graphite: "B., Cummings"; inscribed at lower right: "Hoboken 1829"; at upper right: ""D[cut]"
Description:
Figure
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.
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
