Portrait Medallion of Charles Darwin, from the Eimer and Amend Chemical Supply Company Building, 18th Street at 3rd Avenue, NYC (demolished 1963)

Loher

Caption

Loher (German (possibly)). Portrait Medallion of Charles Darwin, from the Eimer and Amend Chemical Supply Company Building, 18th Street at 3rd Avenue, NYC (demolished 1963), 1888. White terracotta, 31 x 31 in. (78.7 x 78.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Fisher Scientific Company through Anonymous Arts Recovery Society, 64.259.1.

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Artist

Loher

Title

Portrait Medallion of Charles Darwin, from the Eimer and Amend Chemical Supply Company Building, 18th Street at 3rd Avenue, NYC (demolished 1963)

Date

1888

Geography

Place found: New York, New York, United States

Medium

White terracotta

Classification

Architectural Element

Dimensions

31 x 31 in. (78.7 x 78.7 cm)

Signatures

Signature incised to right of the head : "Loher"

Inscriptions

"Darwin" incised in oak leaf frame.

Credit Line

Gift of the Fisher Scientific Company through Anonymous Arts Recovery Society

Accession Number

64.259.1

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