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Polishing the Brass

(American, active in 1920–1940)
1920–40
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Credit LineCharles Amos Cummings Fund
Accession number1990.477
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsTitled and signed in graphite on verso, top center: Polishing the Brass/Fletcher O. Gould
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Boston; purchased September 1990.
Sabine Baring-Gould
1899
Paper, Scissors, Sculpture
Laura Baring-Gould
2004
Covered Water Pitcher
Fletcher & Gardiner
about 1811–25
Mug
Thomas C. Fletcher
about 1820–25
Fork (part of travel set)
Thomas C. Fletcher
about 1820
Knife (part of travel set)
Thomas C. Fletcher
about 1820
Spoon (part of travel set)
Thomas C. Fletcher
about 1820
Cleopatra
Thomas Ridgeway Gould
1873
Imogen
Thomas Ridgeway Gould
1866
Side chair
Nathaniel Gould
About 1765–80
Restricted
Nathaniel Gould
1760–80