Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Powder Horn: In Honor of General Lafayette (FW-36) with Vignettes of a Portrait of the Marquis De Lafayette, His Tomb, a Tavern in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a View of Yorktown, Virginia
Object Number:
1907.36.36
Date:
1891
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, brown and black ink and wash, and gouache, and green and gold metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in. ( 30.2 x 37.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: Rufus A. Grider Canajohane N.Y.1891
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left below powder horn in brown ink: "Rufus A Grider. Canajoharie N.Y.1891."; inscribed at upper right under oval portrait: "Marquis DE LAFAYETTE"; each vignette followed by a lengthy history regarding Lafayette
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
