Artwork Details
- Title
- Cane inscribed THIS CANE WAS CUT NEAR JEFFERSONS TOMB
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Date
- probably 20th century
- Location
- Dimensions
- 36 1⁄8 x 1 1⁄2 x 1 1⁄2 in. (91.7 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Mediums Description
- carved and lacquered hard maple with metal
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Animal — reptile — snake
- Architecture Exterior — detail — window
- Emblem — Masonic
- Architecture Exterior — domestic — Monticello
- Object Number
- 1986.65.7
Artwork Description
The words on this cane, which can be read by turning the shaft round and round, celebrate Thomas Jefferson and his accomplishments as author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. president, and founder of the University of Virginia (Lynda Hartigan, Made with Passion, 1990).