Collection Highlights
Castle Garden, New York City
Date:
1859
Object Number:
1972.13
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Victor G. Putman (FW-132), with Carving Unfurled and a Landscape Vignette of Fort Niagara, Lake Ontario, New York
Object Number:
1907.36.115
Date:
1887
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and copper metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/2 x 13 in. ( 26.7 x 33 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed center right: RA Grider/ Oct. 1st 1887
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at middle right in brown ink: "RA Grider Oct. 1st 1887."; inscribed at lower left: "The PUTMAN...", with a brief history of the horn at lower center; at lower right below vignette: "Distant view of Fort NIAGARA..."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
