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Foster family coat-of-arms, oil paint on mahogany wood panel; primarily gold and red design on a dark ground; shield depicts three hunting horns hanging by three clover-shaped ribbons; motto "IBI LIBERTAS" on a banner painted at the foot of the shield; in original giltwood and gesso pierced rococo frame made of pine or fir.
hatchments
mahogany (wood)
oil paint (paint)
gesso
Painting
"IBI LIBERTAS" (painted on banner under the shield)
"Executed for Harrison Gray Otis in England, circa 1790." (pencil)
Associated With Harrison Gray Otis House, First House (Boston, Mass.),
Unknown
United Kingdom
11 3/8 x 11 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Sargent Collier
1992.172
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
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