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Landscape with trees in foreground, valley in middle ground dotted with minute figures of sheep and a farmer with a team of oxen pulling well-filled haywain. Mountains in distance with a snow-capped mountain in center background.
Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon
White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire
1853
Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
1895.57
A Gothic-style church tower is seen in the middle distance. It dominates a cloudless sky in the upper portion of the image, with trees rising behind the lower portion of the building and a single story outcropping of the building expanding to the tower's left. The architectural details, especially the carved stonework and patterned brickwork, are rendered with precision.<br />
Signed and dated lower right on plate: "John Taylor Arms. 1937". Signed and dated lower right below plate in pencil: "John Taylor Arms 1937".<br />
Watermark: England
John Taylor Arms (American (North American))
Anglia Antiqua, West Walton
1937
Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke
1949/1.42
Within an elaborate decorative framework consisting of griffins, birds, dogs, and fantastic half man-half beast creatures is a central panel with the image of a nude woman standing on a column holding a victor&#39;s wreath in either hand. Approaching for either side is a man in a quadriga holding a banner; each also holds a line that extends up to the wreath in the woman&#39;s hand.
Hans Vries
Ornament Print from a series: 'Grottesco in diversche manieren'
1555 – 1560
Museum Purchase
1960/1.118

Bernardino Campi (Italian (culture or style))
Ornamental Design: A Grotesque Winged Figure (recto); Beginning of an Architectu
16th century
Museum Purchase
1960/2.11
A black and white etching depicting several fragments of friezes and columns, followed by textual descriptions in Italian.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian (culture or style))
Frieze, Soffits, Columns, plate 9 from Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto innalzati per la vittoria ad Actium e conquista dell'Egitto con vari altri ornamenti antichi
1753
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
1985/2.133

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Belt ornament in the shape of a shell
1945 – 1955
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/2.48

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Belt ornament in the shape of a beetle
1945 – 1955
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/2.49
Blue and white beaded necklace with darker blue bead and white tassle at bottom. Loose white bead from tassle. White tag attached.
Nguni (Nguni)
Beaded Necklace
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.25
Beaded patch. Main section in small white beads with yellow rectangle in small beads and some green and blue stripes. Red beaded tassles on either end. Brown thread. Loose long thread coming off end.
Nguni (Nguni)
Beaded Patch
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.29
Beaded necklace in lattice pattern. White beads on brown thread with three sections of green, black, and red beaded stripes. Long threads at end with four red beads on each. Threads are 18 inches long.
Nguni (Nguni)
Beaded Necklace
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.32
Beaded red toothbrush with striped beading covering in white, black, red, yellow and blue beads. Tassles near the toothbrush head. White string tied through hole at bottom of toothbrush.
Nguni (Nguni)
Beaded Toothbrush
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.37
Beaded jewelry with a rectangular piece made up of white beads with green "H" shape in the middle and three stripes on either end of blue, green and red beads. Twisted fringe at two ends.
Nguni (Nguni)
Beaded Jewelry
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.43
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