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Carving

Collection Type

  • Art

GUSN

GUSN-11160

Description

Small, rectagnular format; yellow eagle, carved in relief, affixed to a black wood panel; their are fifteen painted stars around head and the motto: "all for one" below the bird.

Details

Descriptive Terms

carvings (visual works)
carving (processes)
gilding
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oil on Panel
Carved
Gilded
CARVING

Inscription

Below the bird: ""All for one"" On a jelly label in the upper left reverse of the backing: ""Loaned by/N.F. Little""

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

12.875 x 10.25 x 1.5 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.488

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