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 2005.00008
Identifier
ark:/88435/tm70n3326
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 4.
Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 29, no. 2, figure 4.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Ink washes
Inscribed on plate attached to frame: "No. 4 Death of Gen-L Mercer at Princetown Jany 1777. J. Trumbull 10th May 1786". Presumably this reflects an inscription on the verso of the drawing.
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
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
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/20648296-c568-44b7-be96-343394c7c82b/manifest