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1850-1900
GUSN-11417
Carved and painted silhouette of a rooster, made from one piece of wood. The silhouette is crude, with painted detail; for example, the legs were painted on a wedge-shaped area at the base. Traces of white and green paint remain on the body; there are traces of red paint around the comb and head; while the feet were picked out in yellow and black, green and brown. Iron pieces are embedded in one side of the rooster, when it was affixed to a support laterally. Two holes were drilled in the base, presumably also to display it on a surface.
shop signs
silhouettes
carving (processes)
oil paint (paint)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oil
Pencil
Carved
SIGN, TRADE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
15 x 15 x 0.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.365
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