Collection Highlights
Ki On Twog Ky (also known as Cornplanter ) (1732/40-1836)
Date:
1796
Object Number:
1867.314
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Oliver Graham (R-49), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignette Views of Stony Point, New York, and the Alexander Hamilton Monument, Weehawken, New Jersey
Object Number:
1907.36.230
Date:
1887
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, and graphite with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/8 x 14 in. ( 28.3 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed center: Rufus A. Grider Oct 25, 1887
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center below horn in brown ink: "Rufus A Grider Oct. 25 1887."; inscribed at the middle right: "The OLIVER GRAHAM…", followed by a brief history of the horn; at center below landscape vignette: "WHERE ALEXR HAMILTON FELL, 1805."; at lower right below vignette: "STONY POINT on the HUDSON…"
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
