Collection Highlights
Ye book of copperheads
Date:
1863
Object Number:
LIB.XS.E647.L52.1863
Medium:
Paper
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Luce Center
Powder Horn: John Dearborn (FW-86), with Vignettes of a Scene of the Burning of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and a Portrait of General Henry Dearborn
Object Number:
1907.36.76
Date:
1892
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and gold and copper metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. ( 30.2 x 36.5 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom right: drawn at Exeter N.H. Aug. 5, 1891/ by R.A Grider. Upper right: RA Grider/ Canajoharie...
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at middle right in black ink: "RA Grider / Canajoharie / N.Y. Dec. 1892."; signed at lower right; with extensive inscriptions about the Dearborns and the bruning of Charlestown
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
