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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Modeling tools and crayon stumps used by Sophia Hawthorne [realia].

BIB_ID
221732
Accession number
MA 3400 (1)
Published
[18--]
Credit line
Gift; Lorenz Reich Jr.; 1980.
Description
20 modeling tools and crayon stumps.
Notes
A note (in an unidentified hand) on the paper cone in which the tools are wrapped reads: "16 black walnut tools, 2 stumps, 1 scraper iron, 3 broken at one end, 1 knife scapula."
Originally wrapped with a paper note in the hand of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop that reads: "Sophia Hawthorne's modelling tools and a crayon stump used in drawing Raphael's angels in 1864."
Forms part of MA 3400, a collection of Hawthorne family letters and ephemera.
various dimensions; largest, 25 cm
Medium
Walnut, iron, and other materials.
Classification