Genl Israel Putnam: The Iron Son of "76" Effecting his Escape from British Dragoons
date: label: date made
content: ca 1845
name: label: publisher
content: Sowle & Shaw
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand colored print of General Israel Putnam (1718-1790) on horseback escaping from British troops. While Putnam had several heroic episodes during the American Revolution, this print depicts "Old Put" narrowly escaping the British in Greenwich on February 26, 1779 while he escaped out a window on his saddled horse and galloping off the edge of a rocky embankment while waving his sword in warning as he is being fired upon.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The graphic artist or lithographer of this print is unknown though it may be James Baillie but Sowle and Shaw is identified as the publisher/distributor of this print. John Sowle and Albert Shaw were principals in the firm of Soule and Shaw, listed in the Boston city directory as dealers of pictures (prints and engravings). The company was in business from 1845-1850 until Shaw was replaced by Joseph Ward as an owner.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Revolutionary War
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: related event
content: American Revolution
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2536
label: catalog number
content: 60.2536
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 8 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 29.21 cm