Art Objects

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6 Print

 

"View of the Dam and Water Works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia," covered with old glass and in original molded pine frame with blackened (ebonized) sections surrounding gilded cove. 1824 from drawing by Thomas Birch, published in Philadelphia, PA
56 Painting Bust-length portrait of George Washington in powdered wig, facing to the viewer's left, wearing a Revolutionary officer's uniform of navy coat with buff collar and lapels, dress gold epaulets and several gold-tone buttons, white shirt with sheer jabot. The subject enclosed in a "porthole" of simulated stone, as if the viewer were looking through the porthole at Washington. Handsome plain molded good frame (with moldings of contrasting matte and shiny gold finish) with plaque mounted at lower center engraved "Washington Rembrandt Peale". 1855 Philadelphia
63(CG) Book

Courtesy of the Color Guard

 

Loop handle connects to long body with section of flattened area with center rib above section of rounded body above square section before the flat shovel-shaped working surface. 18th century America
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