Collection Highlights
Geometrical Lathe-work Proof
Date:
Object Number:
PR.221.63
Medium:
Engraving
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Powder Horn: Johannes Windecker (FW-115), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignettes of a Portrait of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge and a Print of Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh, New York
Object Number:
1907.36.98
Date:
1894
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and gold, green and copper metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper with a collaged photographic print
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 3/8 x 15 5/16 in. ( 28.9 x 38.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: Rufus A. Grider, Canajoharie N.Y. 1894
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in brown ink below powder horn: "Rufus A Grider -- Canajoharie N.Y. 1894."; inscribed at lower right in graphite: "The / WINDECKER.", followed by a brief history of the horn; at middle left below print in brown ink: "Gen'l Washington's Headquarters / at Newburgh..."; at center below portrait: "Benj'n Tallmadge / Coll."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
