Collection Highlights
Dressing table
Date:
1795-1810
Object Number:
INV.14982
Medium:
Probably New York mahogany, white pine, yellow poplar, other inlays
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Joshua Chase (FW-99), with a Vignette Scene of Washington Crossing the Delaware River
Object Number:
1907.36.84
Date:
c. 1890
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and green metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
12 x 14 1/4 in.
Marks:
inscriptions: signed lower left center: Rufus Grider/ of Canajoharie N.Y. 1892
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at left of center in brown ink: "JOHN CHASE was a soldier from Mass...Rufus A. Grider. / of Canajoharie / N.Y."; inscribed at lower right: "The JOHN CHASE.", with a brief history of the horn; at center below landscape vignette: "WASHINGTON crossing the / DELAWARE..."; with annotations in graphite
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
