Collection Highlights
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Date:
Object Number:
LIB.QH41.C26.1974
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Uniforms of the American Revolution: Private, Virginia Light Dragoons
Object Number:
1921.107
Date:
c. 1910
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. ( 37.1 x 24.1 cm )
mat: 19 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. ( 48.6 x 35.9 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Chas M. Lefferts"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in brown watercolor: "Chas. M. Lefferts"; inscribed along upper edge: "Regt. Cont. Light Dragoons Virginia Light Dragoon 1776 Private, Capt. Theodoric Bland's Troop"
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 Charles MacKubin Lefferts
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
