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 2005.00006
Identifier
ark:/88435/3484zr079
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 2.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen drawings
Inscribed on metal plate attached to frame: "J. Trumbull, No. 2 Princetown".
Holdings at Yale: Three other sketches and two oil paintings.

Discovery Information

Subject
Generals—United States—18th century—Portraits
United States—History—Revolution, 17751783—Campaigns—New Jersey—Princeton—In art
Studies (visual works).
Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777—Portraits
United States—History, Military—18th century—In art
Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777—Portraits
Portraits, American—18th century
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/083c648c-950c-4a1f-aadb-8c986b5efcce/manifest