Collection Highlights
"Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?"
Date:
Object Number:
PR.031.3
Medium:
Chromolithograph card
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Museum Collections
Uniforms of the American Revolution: Private, Haslet's Delaware Regiment, 1775
Object Number:
X.378
Date:
c.1910
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. ( 37.8 x 23.8 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Chas M. Lefferts"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in red gouache: "Chas. M. Lefferts"; inscribed along upper edge in brown gouache: "Haslet's Delaware Regiment 1775-1776. American Army Privateman 1776"
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.
