Collection Highlights
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
Date:
1835
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1835.49
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Powder Horn: William Swart (R-59) with Vignette Scene of the Men of an American Colonial Family Preparing to Join the Revolutionary Forces, 1776, with William Cullen Bryant's Poem "Seventy-Six"
Object Number:
1907.36.240
Date:
1890
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, collage, graphite, and gold and copper metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 7/8 x 15 in. ( 30.2 x 38.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom center: RA Grider Ap. 1890
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left below horn in black ink: "R A Grider Ap. 1890."; inscribed at lower right: "The William Swart…", followed by a brief history of the horn
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
