Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Date:
1916-1922
Object Number:
1954.164
Medium:
Painted plaster
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Daniel Brooks (FW-98), with Four Portrait Vignettes
Object Number:
1907.36.83
Date:
1892
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and green and gold metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 15/16 x 15 1/8 in. ( 30.3 x 38.4 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: signed upper center: Rufus Grider/ Canajoharies N.Y. 1892
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at upper center in brown ink: "The DANIEL BROOKS... / Rufus A. Grider. / Canajoharie N.Y. 1892.", with an extensive history of the horn and its owners; inscribed at lower right below portrait vignettes: "Above are the PORTRAITS of four of / the former owners of this horn..."; portraits labeled from the top: "WOLFE"; "WARREN"; "WASHINGTON"; "JACKSON"
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
