Collection Highlights
The Lost Cause
Date:
1871
Object Number:
PR.068.19
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Alfred S. Roe (FW-123), with Carving Unfurled, a Landscape Vignette of Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario, New York, and Seven Prints of Maps of Colonial New York Forts
Object Number:
1907.36.106
Date:
1888
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, collage and blue and copper metallic pigment, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/8 x 13 1/4 in. ( 28.3 x 33.7 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: RA Grider May 14th 1888.
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in brown ink below powder horn: "RA Grider May 14th 1888. / The ALFRED S. ROE horn...RA Grider", with a brief history of the horn ; inscribed at lower right below vignette: "FORT OSWEGO at LAKE ONTARIO N.Y."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
