1840
This is Sully's palette for his portrait of his daughter, Jane Cooper Sully Darley, and her son, Francis Thomas Sully Darley, now at the Metropolitan Museum. The finished work is signed and dated 1840. The sketch on the back depicts Blanche Sully, another of the artist's daughters.
18.1 x 19.5 cm (7 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Mrs. A. W. Sully, Brooklyn, New York. 102 Cambridge Place
Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanCharcoal on off-white laid paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanCharcoal on heavy green wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanWatercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanSketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers embossed with leaves
19th centuryAmericanOff-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanSketchbook with dark brown covers embossed with grapevine
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on paper; verso: charcoal
19th centuryAmericanGraphite, red crayon, and white gouache on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanGraphite on darkened off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanWatercolor and white gouache on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmerican