Bas-Relief Shield
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This carving was made of painted wood. It is a shield withthe coat of arms of Ferdinando Gorges, a naval and military commander and governor of the port of Plymouth, in England. A card attached to the back of the shield reads:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This piece of wood is the coat<br>of arms of Sir Ferdinando Gorges<br>who was authorized by the British<br>Government to colonize Maine and<br>New Hampshire. It was carved by<br>Bellamy and hung on the house of<br>George Wasson. George Wasson and<br>William Dean Howeles were writers<br>and friends of Bellamy.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Mr. Wasson built this house in<br>1700 in Kittery Point, Maine,<br>where the coat of arms has been<br>hanging.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The last descendants to own this<br>house, now known as the Sparhawk<br>Mansion, were the Mitchels, Horace<br>Mitchel who was senator to the<br>New Hampshire Senate.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The shield was bought from son of
label: Description
content: Horace Mitchel.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Bellamy lived in Kittery for many<br>years not far from the Sparhawk<br>house where this coat of arms hung.</p>
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: location where used
content: United States: Maine, Kittery Point
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content: Culture and the Arts: Folk Art
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joel Barlow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.68.444
label: accession number
content: 260206
label: catalog number
content: 68.444
label: collector/donor number
content: B-29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, pine (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 in x 48 in; 81.28 cm x 121.92 cm