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Frame, Picture

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1725-1775

GUSN

GUSN-4581

Description

Painted gold over black; plain rectangular ogee molding with bead edge; frame rabetted at corners with added nails; three corners are notched on edge; two nails on back of frame with leather circles under heads.

Details

Descriptive Terms

frames (furnishings)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
FRAME, PICTURE

Inscription

Lightly cut into back of frame, ""J.M. Barrell, 1854"" and ""Julia M. Barrell.""

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

9.125 x 11.188 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.775

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