Reverse painting on glass mounted in an American Reverse Cove Gold Leaf Picture Frame, is a scene of Fort Washington from the Maryland side of the Potomac River. The moon is shaped from a piece of Mother of Pearl. The Fort served as one of the points of defense for Washington D.C. during the Civil War.
Reverse painting on glass mounted in an American 1850 Sully Gambose Picture Frame, is a scene of two houses in a rural setting near a meandering river with two people in a small boat and a sail boat down stream. The white facades of the houses are Mother of Pearl.
