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Collection Highlights

Stained glass window
ca. 1656
1951.414c
Glass
Artist/Maker: Evert Duyckinck

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Printed textile

Printed textile
Title
Printed textile
Object name 
Broadside
Date 
ca.1813
Related People 
Related Person: James Lawrence
Related People 
Artist/Maker: C. Cobb
Related People 
Artist/Maker: N. W. Munroe
Medium 
Silk
Dimensions 
Overall: 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. ( 36.2 x 26.7 cm )
Description 
Silk block-printed broadside of the eulogy of Commander James Lawrence, with a monument heapiece surrounded by flags and navy emblems, surmounted by a portrait bust; text below; printed in black ink on a white ground.
Credit Line 
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr., 1904
Object Number 
INV.1206
Marks 
printed: on monument: "SACRED/ to the/ Memory/ of the/ BRAVE/ Jas. Lawrence/ Esquire./ Obt. June A 1813/ AE 31." printed: all over: "ELEGY,/ IN REMEMBERANCE OF/ JAMES LAWRENCE, ESQUIRE:/ (LATE COMMANDER OF THE UNITED STATES' FRIGATE CHESAPEAKE.)/ SPIRIT OF SYMPATHY ! from Heaven descend ! /..."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.