Works on Paper in the Visual Arts Collection

This Louisiana State Museum collection contains over 14,000 objects.

Works on paper include drawings, prints, newspaper illustrations, silhouettes, watercolors and pastels, postcards, and posters. Highlights of the collection are lithographs by the free man of color Jules Lion in the 1840s, etchings by Morris Henry Hobbs and Knute Heldner, and three topographical house portraits by Marie Adrien Persac, and hundreds of drawings, prints, and watercolors by Newcomb College artist Sadie Irvine.