1800-1825
GUSN-3154
Rectangular format montage of a three-masted ship carved and applied to a wooden background that is painted blue. The sails are in high relief. Small figures are painted on the bowsprit, in the rigging, and on the crow's nest. There are two boats on deck. It is in a flat, rectangular, veneered frame of walnut.
montages (visual works)
wood (plant material)
leather
painting (coating)
montages (visual works)
Wood
Painted
Montage
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
12 3/8 x 20 x 1 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.824
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