The Children of Homer Ramsdell, Esq.

The Children of Homer Ramsdell, Esq.

Thomas Seir Cummings

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.