Object number1952.3.2
General Israel Putnam
Date1845
Artist
Nathaniel Currier
(American, 1813-1888)
CultureAmerican
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (29.85 x 21.59 cm)
Sheet: 14 x 8 3/4 in. (35.56 x 22.23 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 x 40.64 cm)
Sheet: 14 x 8 3/4 in. (35.56 x 22.23 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 x 40.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd (Blanchette Hooker, class of 1931)
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (LL): Lith. and Pub. by Currier
InscribedInscribed (LR): 2 Spruce St. N. Y. ; (at bottom): Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1845 by N Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N. Y. / GENL. ISRAEL PUTNAM. / THE IRON SON OF "76" / Effecting his escape form the British Dragoons. - ; (on paper attatched to back of print): This sketch was brought over from New York by Job (?) Botts Brother of Mrs. Holland Shepherson in 1864 - and put in this frame by her brother Stephen Botts, May 27th, 1848. (illegible initials follow)
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