Study for the Death of General Warren at Bunker's Hill

1785–86

Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray and brown ink washes, squared for transfer in graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: sight in frame: 5 1/2 × 8 1/8 in. (14 × 20.6 cm)
framed: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 1 in. (26.7 × 34.3 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with a gift from Robert L. McNeil, Jr., B.S. 1936S and the John Hill Morgan, B.A. 1893, Fund
Accession Number: 2005.7.1
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

The artist; his great-niece, Mary Huntington Lanman Bull, Montclair, New Jersey, 1874; sold, "Catalogue of the Very Important Studies and Sketches Made by Col. John Trumbull," by Stan V. Henkels at The Art and Auction Rooms of Thomas Birch's Sons, Philadelphia, Penn., December 17, 1896, lot I; to Edwin Babcock Holden (d. 1906), New York; sold, "The Edwin Babcock Holden Collection," American Art Galleries, New York, April 28, 1910, lot 3788; by descent to private collection. Purchased at Sotheby's (May 19, 2004) by dealer David Nisinson.

Bibliography

American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 87–88, no. 31, ill

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 56, 354, pl. 30

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

histories (visual works), military history

Subject

Battle of Bunker Hill battles

Marks

Whatman watermark

Inscriptions

inscribed "Death of General Warren at Bunker's Hill/June 17, 1775./Painted 1785 & 6 on the reverse

Signed

Signed "J. Trumbull"

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