Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Josiah Bentun (FW-119), with Carving Unfurled
Object Number:
1907.36.102
Date:
1888
Medium:
Watercolor, brown ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and copper and green metallic pigment with selective glazing on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 13 7/16 in. ( 25.4 x 34.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed right center: RA Grider Sept. 1888
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at left of center in brown ink below powder horn: "RA Grider Sep.1888"; inscribed at middle right: "The / BENTUN.", with a brief history of the horn; at lower center: "This horn and another known as No. [blank space] of this collection were evidently engraved by the / same hand..."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
