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Overmantel panel depicting a seaport town with ships in the harbor; street crowded with vehicles and people in the foreground. Church with steeple at right: steeple has hole in clock face for working watch hands. Removed from an unidentified house, possibly in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
overmantels (interior wall components)
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
panel paintings (painting by form)
Overmantel
Exhibited At Old State House (Boston, Mass.),
Attributed to Blunt, John S., 1798-1835
18 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3952
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