Historic New England

Bread-and-butter plate

Porcelain bread-and-butter plate with white body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198759

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.6

Print of an unknown house. There are two gentlemen conversing in the foreground. The man to the left is wearing a coat and carrying a hat and a cane. The man on the right is dressed as a hunter with a top hat and a gun over his shoulder. A third figure is leaning against a stone wall reading a book....

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198760

Accession Number: 2006.44.624

Dessert plate

Porcelain dessert plate with white body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD"

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198761

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.7

Tea service

Porcelain tea service with teapot, cream pitcher and sugar bowl. White bodies, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198762

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885

La Grange East View

Print of a castle with a moat. The castle has three towers. The two far towers are flying pennants. There is a large weeping willow in the center left and foliage surrounding the castle and in the foreground. The wood frame is painted black and has a gilt decorative inner border of laurel leaves.

Date: 1826

Maker: Fisher, Alvan, 1792-1863 (Artist) Deroy, Isidore Laurent, 1797-1886 (Engraver)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198763

Accession Number: 2006.44.625

Teapot

Porcelain teapot with white body, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198767

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885.1AB

Sugar bowl

Porcelain double handled sugar bowl with lid with white body, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198771

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885.2AB

Cream pitcher

Porcelain cream pitcher with white body, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198773

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885.3

Teacup

Procelain teacup with light blue landscape scene with village. Has thin gold trim and handle is detailed in gold to look like bamboo.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198775

Accession Number: 2006.44.2894.1

Saucer

Procelain saucer with light blue landscape scene with village. Has thin gold trim and Japanese symbols on back.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198777

Accession Number: 2006.44.2894.2

Teacup

Porcelain pink teacup with abbey scene "1893" California. Gold trim and handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198781

Accession Number: 2006.44.2887.1

Saucer

Porcelain pink saucer with abbey scene "1893" California. Gold trim.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198783

Accession Number: 2006.44.2887.2

Frame

Empty wood frame with gilding. The outer edge has small leaf border. There are diagonal decorations on the corners between the outer edge and inner edge. There are two metal eye hooks with rope on the top.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), gilding

GUSN: 198784

Accession Number: 2006.44.626

Mug

Pink and white mug with thin brown stripe

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198788

Accession Number: 2006.44.2886

Shadow box

Shadow box of a miniature medieval walled city. There is a large enclosed courtyard or cloister area. There is foliage in the foreground and the background is painted glass with a blue sky and green mountains. The wood frame is painted black with a gilt border.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), paint (coating), glass (material)

GUSN: 198792

Accession Number: 2006.44.627

Teacup

Pink lustreware teacup with square handle and finger rest, floral and geometric designs on interior and exterior of bowl.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198795

Accession Number: 2006.44.1873.3

Saucer

Pink lustreware saucer floral and geometric designs

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198798

Accession Number: 2006.44.1873.4

The Embarkation on the Mayflower

A print of the Mayflower with a crowd of pilgrims carrying chests and bags from the town. the There is water on the left and town on a hill to the right. There is a flag flying from the mast with the inscription "Plymouth Rock or Bust." The title is in the lower left. The wood frame is painted black...

Maker: Reproduction of Crawford, Will, 1869-1944 (Artist)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198799

Accession Number: 2006.44.628

Pitcher

English Staffordshire copper lusterware pitcher with yellow stripe and copper leaf detail.

Maker: unknown

Material: copper (metal)

GUSN: 198801

Accession Number: 2006.44.2882

Tile, Fireplace

Square, decorative ceramic tile, white background with blue painted picture of a country church

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic tile, glaze, paint by function

GUSN: 198918

Accession Number: 1932.316.72

Tile

Sqaure, decorative tile, grayiosh-white background with dark blue flower with leaves painted in the center.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic tile, glaze

GUSN: 198924

Accession Number: 1932.316.36

Tile, Fireplace

Square, blue and white glazed tile depicting flower stemming from lower left hand corner.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 198929

Accession Number: 1932.316.40

Humphreys' Homeopathic No.33 bottle and box

"Humphreys' Homeopathic no. 33 Spasms & convulsions" medicine glass bottle with aluminum bottle lid. Also a "Humphreys' Homeopathic No. 33 Spasms & convulsions" medicine box with black writing.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199015

Accession Number: 2006.44.2430AB

Humphreys' No. 16

Small medicine box wrapped in paper that has Humphreys label printed on it. Discolored with black writing.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199016

Accession Number: 2006.44.2432

Baume benge

"Baume Bengue" box that is brown with a discolored once off white top. Brown letter explaines that what was once withing the box was "The original Fench Product made of Menthol, Salicylate of Methyl and Lanolin". This is the box that once held baume that was pain relief for Rheumatism Colds neuralg...

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199017

Accession Number: 2006.44.2443

Portrait of Anna Phillips

Anna Phillips is standing, facing the right with her hands folded in front of her and her head is turned looking toward the right proper side. She's wearing a long dress with three fourths sleeves and her hair is up. Ornately carved and painted wood frame that opens in the front to reveal the pictur...

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221849

Accession Number: 2006.44.856

Photograph of Stephen Phillips

Framed black and white photographic portrait of Stevie standing in the parlor. He wears a collared shirt, tie, jacket, and high ankle shoes. He stands in front of the fireplace and to the right is a chair and side table.

Date: 1918

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), photographic materials, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221851

Accession Number: 2006.44.848

Anne Kinsman

Framed watercolor and ink portrait of a young girl. She is facing the left proper side. Her dress is blue with a white lace collar. Oval frame with an inner ring of metal surrounding the picture.

Date: ca. 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 221854

Accession Number: 2006.44.857

Landscape in Winter

Unframed oil painting of a landscape in winter. A house in a field is surrounded by a forest.

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, paper (fiber product), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 221857

Accession Number: 2006.44.849

Kings Hill from Davis Hill, New London , N.H.

Unframed watercolor painting of a landscape. Flowers, bushes, a body of water, and part of a building in the foreground and three hills in the background.

Maker: Noyes, Ann A. (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 221858

Accession Number: 2006.44.864

James Duncan Jr.

Framed silhouette of a man in profile. He faces the proper left side and is wearing a collared shirt and tie, and a ponytail.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), cloth

GUSN: 221859

Accession Number: 2006.44.858

View of the Court House in Salem, Massachusetts

Framed print with watercolor of the Salem Court House. The building has four ionic colums in front and a tower. In the middle of all all the buildings are four standing figures. In the background, a boat is in the water.

Maker: S. Wood & Sons (Dealer)

GUSN: 221861

Accession Number: 2006.44.859

Prise D'un Vasseau De Guere Holland ois Devant Ostende

Framed black and white print of a sea battle of ships. There are nineteen ships and four boats on the water. On the right is a large cloud of smoke and in the foreground are two sea animals.

Maker: Dequevauviller, Francois, 1745-1807 (Engraver)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221863

Accession Number: 2006.44.865

Anna P. (Wheatland) Phillips

Framed photograph portrait of Anna P. Wheatland. She is standing facing the left proper side and her head is turned toward the right proper. Her hands are clasped behind her back, her dress is pink with a fur belt, and a white lace collar. Her sleeves are short and puffed and her hair is up.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: photographic materials, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221866

Accession Number: 2006.44.860

A Yarmouth Water Frolic

Framed reproduction print after a painting by John Crome. There is a water scene of a harbor full of ships with a buoy in the foreground and land with buildings and trees to the right.

Maker: After Crome, John, 1768-1821 (Artist) After Crome, John Bernay, 1794-1842 (Artist) George Pulman & Sons Ltd. (Publisher)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221867

Accession Number: 2006.44.866

Three portraits of Anna P. Wheatland

Three painted photographic prints of Anna P. Wheatland. In the image on the right proper, she is standing, facing right proper, with her hands in front of her on a pillow. The middle image is a bust. Her shoulders face right proper but her head is turned the other direction. In the left proper image...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 221870

Accession Number: 2006.44.861

Oatmeal Row, Salisbury

Framed black and white etching of building facades.

Date: 1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221872

Accession Number: 2006.44.867

Croyden from Trow's Hill

Unframed watercolor painting mounted onto a board of three hills descending into the background.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 221874

Accession Number: 2006.44.863

Model Ship

Framed photograph of a model ship. There are two masts and a dingy off the back. Two legs and two braces keep the ship upright. There is an American flag on the far right proper mast.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), photographic materials, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221875

Accession Number: 2006.44.869

Reverend George Phillips Preaching under a Great Tree at Watertown

Framed print of bas relief from the Founder's Memorial of Watertown made in 1930. A man preaches to others dressed in Colonial clothing under a large tree.

Date: 1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221877

Accession Number: 2006.44.868

View over Pali, Honolulu

Framed photographic print of a landscape. The view is from a hill looking down into a valley. On the hill on the left proper side, there is a car and a sign. In the background, on the left proper side is water, and to the right proper side are more hills.

Maker: Salem Art Shop (Framer)

Material: paper (fiber product), photographic materials, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221878

Accession Number: 2006.44.870

A Northerly Perspective View from a Window in Massachusetts Hall

Framed print of a landscape of Harvard College. There is a field in the foreground, in front of six buidings. Going through the field is a road, and on the right proper side, two roads meet.

Maker: Griffin, Samuel (Artist)

GUSN: 221882

Accession Number: 2006.44.871

Tree Garden 2, Forge Paintings

Unframed watercolor painting of a tree in a field. There is a garden of flowers behind it and the foreground consists of grass and trees.

Maker: Noyes, Ann A. (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 221883

Accession Number: 2006.44.882

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Framed watercolor print of Harvard College. In the foreground is a field with figures in it. There are six buildings in the background. The middle red building has a tower. In the middle ground is a white fence.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221887

Accession Number: 2006.44.872

Yellow Shanks Snipe

Framed print of a bird. The bird is in the foreground and faces the right proper side. It has black and white feathers, a black beak, and yellow legs and feet. The bird is by a river and there are numerous trees in the background.

Maker: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 (Artist) J.T. Bowen (Printer)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 221891

Accession Number: 2006.44.873

Grey Fox

Unframed lithograph of a fox. The fox is in the foreground facing the proper left side. Behind the fox is some raised ground with some grass on top. In the background is a farm.The fox has a black back, red belly and legs and tail and under the neck, and blue eyes.

Maker: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 (Artist) J.T. Bowen (Printer)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 221896

Accession Number: 2006.44.874

Whip-poor-will

Unframed lithograph of three birds and a moth in three stages. The bird at the top is flying, the middle bird is getting ready to land, and the bottom bird is perched on a branch. The moth is a caterpillar on a leaf, and is green and black. The moth towards the bottom has gold and purple wings. Behi...

Maker: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 (Artist) J.T. Bowen

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 221905

Accession Number: 2006.44.875

Screen

Three-part folding screen (.1); each panel with reeded columns with lobed ball finials and petal and leaf-carved feet centering a a molded frame containing peacock feathers on a damask ground under glass. The backs are of damask. (Also two boxes of peacock feathers) located in HAV-01-503-E-C-1101

Date: ca. 1875

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood), glass (material), silk (textile), feather (material)

GUSN: 221930

Accession Number: 1990.132

Writing Table

Fixed top with two drop leafs secured by strap hinges; frame supports two drawers; upper drawer fitted with black velvet writing surface and smaller side compartments; all four legs are turned with ring-turned embellishments on tapered feet; upper drawer pulls (and lower right drawer pull) appear to...

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), veneer, poplar (wood)

GUSN: 221935

Accession Number: 1990.134

Wallpaper fragment

Wallpaper fragment, beige, white, and gold stripes.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 221938

Accession Number: 2009.20.11.1

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