Collection Highlights
Ki On Twog Ky (also known as Cornplanter ) (1732/40-1836)
Date:
1796
Object Number:
1867.314
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Printed textile
Object Number:
INV.1143
Date:
April 21, 1820
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 14 1/2 in. ( 53.3 x 36.8 cm )
Marks:
printed: all over: "SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE LATE/ COMMODORE STEPHAN DECATUR./ High on the wave the warrior rode,/ As rushing o'er the billowy flood,/ ..."
printed: bottom: "Washington City, April 21, 1820...Printed and published by J. McLAUGHLIN"
Description:
Copperplate-printed silk broadside with a poem eulogizing Commodore Stephen Decatur; headship of a monument with naval emblems and frigates with the poem in two columns below within a decorative collonade; printed in black ink on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac F. Wood, 1881
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
