Collection Highlights
Masonic apron
Date:
1780-1800
Object Number:
1951.523ab
Medium:
Silk, metal
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: John Abbot (R-95), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignettes of a Revolutionary War Monument, Danvers, Massachusetts, and a Portrait of Dr. William Eustis
Object Number:
1907.36.274
Date:
1891
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and blue metallic pigment, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/4 x 15 in. ( 32.4 x 38.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: signed bottom center: Rufus A. Grider July 28, 1891
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center below horn in black ink: "Rufus A. Grider July 28 1891"; inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "The JOHN ABBOT.", followed by a history of the horn; at upper center below vignette: "MONUMENT opposite BELL TAVERN..."; at upper left beside vignette: "Dr. WILLIAM EUSTIS..."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
