Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: The Dunham (FW-10), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette of the Ruins of a Fort at Saybrook, Connecticut
Object Number:
1907.36.10
Date:
1889
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, graphite, and touches of gouache with selective glazing on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 13 1/4 in. ( 25.4 x 33.7 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Inscribed upper left: RA Grider Dec. 11th 1889
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at left of center below upper powder horn in brown ink: "RA Grider Dec. 11th. 1889."; inscribed at center below landscape vignette in black ink: "Remains of the Old Fort on the Connecticut River / at SAYBROOK Conn. Erected in 1635"; inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "The DUNHAM.", followed by a brief history of the horn
Description:
Military. Fort at Saybrook Conn.
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
