Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
Date:
ca. 1866
Object Number:
1921.20
Medium:
Steel
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Powder Horn: James Clement (FW-118), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette Scene of a Colonist and Indian in Battle
Object Number:
1907.36.101
Date:
1892
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and gold and green metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/16 x 12 1/4 in. ( 38.3 x 31.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed upper left: RA Grider/ 1892 Lower right: by Rufus A. Grider of Canajoharie N.Y.
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed inside vignette image in black ink: "RA Grider / 1892."; inscribed and signed at right: "This HORN marked JAMES CLEMENT is a French War horn...Rufus A. Grider of Canajoharie N.Y.", with an extensive history of the horn and its owners and annotations on graphite
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
