Collection Highlights
Snake jug
Date:
1871
Object Number:
1906.6ab
Medium:
Stoneware
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Luce Center
Powder Horn: Richard Montague (FW-43), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignettes of a Portrait of Richard Monatgue and a View of His Country Home
Object Number:
1907.36.42
Date:
1891
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, graphite, gouache, and green metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. ( 32.1 x 36.5 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom center: RA Grider
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower center below horn in brown ink: "RICHARD MONTAGUE and the House he built at HADLEY Mass. / about 1660.", followed by a long history of the horn and: "the horn is now at COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado / it was kindly drawn there for me by Miss VIRGINIA / BEAUCHAMP in Novr. 1891. RA Grider"
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
