Collection Highlights
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)
Date:
1724-1726
Object Number:
LIB.Y.1724.V
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Uniforms of the American Revolution: 4th Independent Company, Maryland State Troops
Object Number:
1923.137
Date:
c. 1910
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite with touches of red gouache on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/2 x 8 in. ( 26.7 x 20.3 cm )
mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. ( 48.9 x 35.9 cm )
Inscriptions:
Verso has attached printed label with historical background
Gallery Label:
This is one of the original studies by Lefferts for his landmark Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution, 1775-1783, published by the Society in 1926. The result of a lifetime of research by the artist and author, this volume was the first major published treatise on regimental uniforms of the Revolutionary war.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Charles MacKubin Lefferts
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
