Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Portraits [Browse]

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.

Source acquisition

Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, Princeton University Class of 1888.

References

Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 12, no. 1, figure 2.

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