Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Death of General Mercer [Sketch for The Battle of Princeton].
Call Number
HSV/7 E or 7 F/GC155/Framed GA 2005.00005
Identifier
ark:/88435/6w924k982
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 1.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pen drawings
Inscribed on plate attached to frame: "No. 1 Princetown".
Item description: Other sketches and two oil paintings on the subject are held at Yale.

Discovery Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/06b7f2a9-3fa1-4a2a-8a2a-e63b39fe4a6f/manifest