Collection Highlights
Fraktur: Birth and Baptism certificate of Joseph Flor
Date:
1811
Object Number:
PR.022.13
Medium:
Hand-colored print
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Powder Horn: Isaac Post (R-148), with Vignettes of a Portrait of General Anthony Wayne and a Scene of the Betrayal By Benedict Arnold
Object Number:
1907.36.325
Date:
1895
Medium:
Brown and black ink and wash, watercolor, gouache, graphite, and gold and green metallic pigment, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 9/16 x 14 7/8 in. ( 29.4 x 37.8 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: Rufus A. Grider Canajoharie N.Y. Feb.1895.
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left below horn in brown ink: "Rufus A. Grider. Canajoharie N.Y. Feb. 1895."; inscribed at lower right: "The ISAAC POST.", followed by a history of the horn; at upper center below vignette: "GIVING THE COUNTERSIGN, / at / STONY POINT."; at right of center below vignette: "Gen. ANTHONY WAYNE / who CAPTURED THE POINT."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
