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ca. 1815
GUSN-2266
Reverse painting on glass, rectangular format; figures before a landscape, infant princes handing a scroll to Lord Cornwallis; in gilded, molded small scoop frame.
paintings (visual works)
glass (material)
oil paint (paint)
reverse painting on glass (image-making)
military history
reverse painting on glass (image-making)
Oil
Glass
Painted
Landscape
Trade
PICTURE, HISTORY
Lettered in gold below picture: ""To the Honourable the East India Company / Definitive Treaty by the Hostage Princes.""
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
18 x 23 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.274.2
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