Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town

Provenance

Recorded as from New York. (Harry Stone Gallery, New York, by 1943),[1] by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953. [1] In this year Stone lent the painting to exhibitions at the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, Connecticut, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town

American 18th Century

1783 or after

Accession Number

1953.5.86

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 53.3 x 70.8 cm (21 x 27 7/8 in.) | framed: 60.3 x 77.4 x 3.8 cm (23 3/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch