The Eli Whitney Gun Factory, verso: Blacksmith Shoeing Horse

ca. 1826–28

Not on view

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 1/4 × 29 1/2 in. (61.6 × 74.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1946.36
Geography: Made in Whitneyville, Hamden, Connecticut, United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Paintings
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Bibliography

Reeve Huston, The Early American Republic: A History in Documents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 104, ill

Angela Miller et al., American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008), 251, fig. 8.14

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

cityscapes (representations), human figures (visual works), landscapes (representations)

dogs (animals) factories guns truss bridges

Signed l.l. "William G. Munson/ Pinxt. 1826-8"

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