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Sculpture

Eagle

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1800
Accession number: 2017.5.69
Maker: Unknown, American, 18th Century(Opens in new tab) (American, 1700–1799)
Dimensions: overall: 21 x 24 x 12 in. (53.3 x 61 x 30.5 cm.)
Medium: red pine
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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Carved architectural decorations, such as this rather ferocious eagle, is among the earliest examples of surviving sculpture in America. With its gnarled talons and expertly defined feathers, neck, and head, this eagle is a fine specimen of wood-carving traditions in early America.

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