Collection Highlights
Undutiful Boys
Date:
1835
Object Number:
1858.23
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Luce Center
Powder Horn: The Adam Hur (FW-8), with a Vignette of Quebec, Canada
Object Number:
1907.36.8
Date:
1890
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, graphite, and touches of gouache on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. ( 28.6 x 35.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Inscribed bottom center: RA Grider Jan 1, 1890
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center below powder horn in brown ink: "RA Grider Jan. 1.1890"; inscribed at center below landscape vignette in black ink: "QUEBECK[sic] FROM THE RIVER."; at lower right in brown ink: "The ADAM HUR", followed by a brief history of the horn
Description:
Military. View of Quebec
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
