Collection Highlights
Fete to Lafayette
Date:
1824
Object Number:
PR.022.9
Medium:
Engraving
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Powder Horn: The Blunderbuss (F-17), with a Vignette of a Long-Barreled Musket
Object Number:
1907.36.421
Date:
1889
Medium:
Brown and black ink and wash, watercolor, and graphite, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 14 15/16 in. ( 27.3 x 37.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: RA Grider. July 2a 1889
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "RA. Grider July 2d 1889."; inscribed at upper center in black ink: "The BLUNDERBUSS.", with an extensive history of the horn below vignette: "This Horn was no doubt made in Europe, / Tradition says that it was taken from a dead Indian...Rufus A. Grider / Canajoharie N.Y."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
