Collection Highlights
Stained glass window
Date:
ca. 1656
Object Number:
1951.414b
Medium:
Glass
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Powder Horn: The Waterloo (F-31), with Vignette Portraits of Napoleon above a French Flag and Lord Wellington above a British Standard
Object Number:
1907.36.428
Date:
1890
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, and graphite, on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. ( 27.3 x 36.8 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom right: Sept 1890 RA Grider
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in brown ink: "The WATERLOO.", followed by a brief history of the horn and a translation of the engraved Latin motto; inscribed at left of center below vignette: "NAPOLEON."; at right of center below vignette: "WELLINGTON."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
