The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The American Wing

A Mother's Pearls

Thomas Seir Cummings

Date

1841

Medium

Watercolor on ivory

Dimensions

17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm) 28.148.1: 1 3/16 x 1 in. (3 x 2.6 cm) 28.148.2: 1 3/8 x 1 3/16 in. (3.5 x 3 cm) 28.148.3: 1 9/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4 x 3.5 cm) 28.148.4: 1 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (4.5 x 4 cm) 28.148.5: 1 x 7/8 in. (2.5 x 2.2 cm) 28.148.6: 1 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (4.5 x 4 cm) 28.148.7: 1 9/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4 x 3.5 cm) 28.148.8: 1 3/8 x 1 3/16 in. (3.5 x 3 cm) 28.148.9: 1 3/16 x 1 1/8 in. (3 x 2.8 cm)

Object type

Painting, miniature, necklace

Culture

American

Country

United States

Object number

28.148.1

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Richard B. Hartshorne and Miss Fanny S. Cummings, 1928

The Met object ID 10600. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.