Collection Highlights
"Columbia Demands Her Children"
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.010.1864.30
Medium:
Paper
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Powder Horn: The French War (FW-4), with a Vignette of a Shrine with a Portrait of a Franciscan Monk
Object Number:
1907.36.4
Date:
1892-1893
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, brown ink, black ink and wash, gouache, and gold and pink metallic pigments, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/8 x 14 3/4 in. ( 30.8 x 37.5 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Center bottom: RA Grider / of Canajoharie N.Y./1892
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "RA Grider / of Canajoharie N.Y. / 1892"; at upper right in black ink over graphite: "The FRENCH WAR / Powder HORN. / is / owned by / Ed. FROSSARD / N. York."; Signed and inscribed at lower right in black ink: "RA Grider 1893.", below a long inscription about a battle
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
