Collection Highlights
Thoughts on African Colonization
Date:
1832
Object Number:
LIB.E448.G24.1832
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Luce Center
Powder Horn: James MacCullar (R-101), with a Vignette Portrait of Israel Putnam with Facsimilie Signature, and a View of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1775
Object Number:
1907.36.280
Date:
1890
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and gold and green metallic pigment, with selective glazing on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/16 x 15 in. ( 28.1 x 38.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower left: Rufus A. Grider/ August 1890
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at middle right in gray ink with a facsimilie signature: "Israel Putnam M G / Commander of the Colonial forces at BUNKER HILL..."; at lower right below vignette: "View of ROXBURY, MASS., in 1775..."; below: "The JAMES MACCULLAR..."; followed by a brief history of the horn
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
