Collection Highlights
Portrait of Six Young Women Seated in a Turkish Corner
Date:
Object Number:
PR.120.1.3.SIX
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Banner: Antietam, Sep. 1862
Object Number:
1939.568
Date:
1865-1875
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 22 in. ( 31.1 x 55.9 cm )
Marks:
painted: center: "ANTIETAM,/ SEPTEMBER 17, 1862"
Description:
White glazed cotton banner with light blue stenciled scrolls in the left top and right bottom corners; inscribed, "ANTIETAM/ SEPTEMBER 17, 1862" at a diagonal in blue letters across the banner; red white and blue twisted wool fringe on the fly end; red, white and blue silk grosgrain ribbon ties at both ends of the hoist.
Gallery Label:
This banner is part of a set of Civil War banners memorializing twenty-two battles of the Civil War. They were given to the 79th Regiment, Scottish Highlanders, New York State Volunteers, by the United States War Department.
Credit Line:
Gift of the New York Caledonian Club
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
