Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Death of General Mercer [Sketch for The Battle of Princeton].
Call Number
HSV/7 E or 7 F/GC155 GA 2005.00010
Identifier
ark:/88435/ff365d40w
Publisher
1786.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1786
Extent
1 item
Source Acquisition
Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, Princeton University Class of 1888.
References
Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 12, no. 1, figure 6.
See also Rice, Howard C., in Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 29.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Ink washes
Item description: Final study for the oil painting now at Yale.
Inscribed, verso: "Death of Gen'l Mercer at Princeton Jany 2 1777. J. Trumbull 18th May-.1786". Below, in another hand: "Bought at Trumbull Sale, Philadelphia Dec. 17th 1896 - J.S.Morgan".
Depiction, verso: Tracing of central group, with position of horse's head altered.
Holdings at Yale: Two oil paintings and three sketches on the same subject.

Discovery Information

Subject
Generals—United States—18th century—Portraits
Portraits, American—20th century
Studies (visual works).
United States—History—Revolution, 17751783—Campaigns—New Jersey—Princeton—In art
Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777—Portraits
United States—History, Military—18th century—In art
Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777—Portraits
United States—History—Revolution, 17751783—Casualties—In art
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
{@id=https://bibdata.princeton.edu/locations/delivery_locations/13}
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/06209ce9-16c2-4349-abcb-954413e54240/manifest