Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Lawrence Schoolcroft (FW-200), with Carving Unfurled, and a Vignette of a Bas-Relief on the Battle Monument at Oriskany, New York; verso: sketch of the same Powder Horn
Object Number:
1907.36.174
Date:
1895
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, collage, gouache, graphite, collage and green metallic pigment, with selective glazing on beige paper; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/8 x 14 1/16 in. ( 30.8 x 35.7 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom center: Rufus A. Grider Sep. 1895
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center below powder horn in brown ink: "Rufus A. Grider Sep. 1895. Canajoharie N.Y." inscribed at lower right: "The / SCHOOLCROFT…", followed by a brief history of the horn; inscribed at middle right below collaged photograph : "BRONZE BAZ-RELIEF…"
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
