Collection Highlights
"Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?"
Date:
Object Number:
PR.031.3
Medium:
Chromolithograph card
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Luce Center
Powder Horn: The S. W. (R-102), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette Portrait of General Lafayette and Two Vignette Views of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Object Number:
1907.36.281
Date:
1890
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and bronze and green metallic pigment, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/8 x 14 7/16 in. ( 28.3 x 36.7 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed center: RA Grider Augt. 1890
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower center below horn in brown ink: "RA Grider Augt 1890."; also signed at center inside vignette image; inscribed at lower right: "The S.W.", with a brief history of the horn; facsimilie signature at center below vignette in gray and black ink: "Lafayette. / NOTE: / Tradition relates that...Rufus A. Grider / 1891."; at center below vignettes: "The N.E. Cor. of CUNOW'S Alley and / Main St. BETHLEHEM..."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
