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Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Swordfish Weathervane
Date1850-1875
MediumPainted sheet iron
DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 × 3/4 × 31 7/8 in. (14.6 × 1.9 × 81 cm)
Object numberN0141.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextAccording to the original collector, Jean Lipman, this weathervane was found at the “Old Meeting House,” possibly the Buckingham Friends Meeting House, in Lahaska, Pennsylvania in the mid-20th century. The weathervane is distinctive in that it depicts a swordfish–a rare subject–along with a silhouette of a heart, a common Quaker motif.On View
On view
c. 1850-1870
