The Children of Homer Ramsdell, Esq.

Thomas Seir Cummings

1842 · Watercolor on ivory · The American Wing

This miniature depicts three of the children of the New York City dry-goods merchant Homer Ramsdell and his wife, Frances E. L. Powell. The children are Mary Ludlow Powell (1836-?), Frances Josephine (1838-?), and Thomas Powell (1840-?). Cummings exhibited the piece under this title at the National Academy of Design in 1842.

Artist

Thomas Seir Cummings

Date

1842

Medium

Watercolor on ivory

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, William Cullen Bryant Fellows Gifts, 2001