This unpublished watercolor shows details of the uniform coats, hats, and saddle cloths of the two opposing commanders in chief of the American Revolution.

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.

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.

George I. Mortimer, grandfather of the donor, was apprenticed to the sculptor Robert F. Launitz and, according to the family, worked with Launitz on scupltured lions for the later Sub-Treasury Building on Wall Street, New York City.

Jacobus Barhydt (Barhyte) was Saratoga's first renowned lakeside proprietor. Coming from Albany in 1784, he settled in the Bear Swamp area adjacent to some small ponds which were later known as Barhydt's Lake. As Saratoga developed into a resort town, the renown of his trout dinners brought increasing numbers of guests to his humble home and occasioned the building of more commodious quarters in 1820.

Inderwick's watercolor of the Mitchell Lightbouse appears on a list of prints, maps, and drawings formerly in the collection of Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell (1764-1831), some of which were removed by Isaacher Cozzens from the cellar of the New York Almshouse in City Hall Park, New York City, earlier in the century and which he presented to the Society at some unspecified year in the 1860s. Mitchell, born at New Hampstead, Long Island, was one of the founders of the New-York Historical Society.

The two figures are of a reclining woman and a blacksmith in classical garb, from the Baroness Hyde de Neuville's sketchbook.

This is an unfinished study, of which a similar verson was painted by Lefferts for Rodman Wanamaker in 1916. On September 5, 1781, with the arrival of the French army in Philadelphia on its way to entrap Cornwallis at Yorktown, the Soissonnais regiment went through its parade maneuvers on the Commons outside the city in the presence of the president of the Continental Congress, the minister from France, and the Comte de Rochambeau, commander of French forces in America.

St. John's Episcopal Church, a notable example of Federal architecture, is located at the northwest corner of 16th and H streets. It was erected in 1816 from designs by Latrobe. This is a copy by an unidentified artist after a study by Latrobe in 1816 showing its original appearance in the form of a Greek cross with a flat dome and lantern cupola. A few years later it was enlarged and a tower was added, which is seen in a watercolor of the charch drawn in 1822 by the Baroness Hyde de Neuville.