2015.7: Death of General Montgomery
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2015.7
- People
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Johan Frederik Clemens, Danish (Poland 1749 - 1831 Copenhagen)
After John Trumbull, American (Lebanon, CT 1756 - 1843 New York, NY)
Published by Antonio Cesare Poggi (active 1769 - 1836)
- Title
- Death of General Montgomery
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1798
- Culture
- Danish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/352682
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving on cream antique laid paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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plate: 50.8 x 76.5 cm (20 x 30 1/8 in.)
sheet: 64.8 x 87.6 cm (25 1/2 x 34 1/2 in.)
framed: 83.8 × 104.3 × 4.1 cm (33 × 41 1/16 × 1 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: Painted by John Trumbull Esq.r
- inscription: center, in plate: The Death of General Montgomery / In the Attack of Quebec Dec.r 1775
- inscription: center, in plate: London, Published March 1798, by A.C. de Poggi, No. 91, New Bond Street.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Engraved by J.T. [sic] Clemens
- watermark: coat-of-arms
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [The Old Print Gallery, Washington, DC] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Apell 97.4.II; LeBlanc, II.22.9
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2015
- Object Number
- 2015.7
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 120, Plate 56a
Exhibition History
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