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Oil painting of a harbor with a developed coastline on the left side. There are boats and a small beach on the right and two buildings with flags in the middle. The frame is painted gold with high outside edge reliefing towards the inner edge with shorter levels.
oil paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
wood (plant material)
Painting
"Jordan & Harberg / Manufacturers of Artistic Picture Frames / Boston Mass." (Paper label on reverse.)
"Jordan & Harberg / Manufacturers of / Artistic Picture Frames / 154 Federal Street / Boston Mass. / No." (Paper label on reverse.)
"Chinese painting Warehouse the foreign / Merchants at Canton China / House of Russell & Co. NY / Merchants in oil" (Handwritten below label.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P112
FA041
Jordan and Harberg (Framer)
House of Russell & Co. (Importer)
14 10/16 x 19 10/16 x 1 11/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.535
China
Title Harbor View Accession Number 2006.44.536
Title Harbor View Accession Number 2006.44.537
Title Harbor View Accession Number 2006.44.538
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