The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack of Quebec, December 1775

Johan Frederik Clemens, Danish, 1749 - 1831
after John Trumbull, American, 1756 - 1843

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1798

Engraving on wove paper

Sheet: 27 × 40 1/2 in. (68.6 × 102.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PR.957.131

Geography

Place Made: Denmark, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Painted by John Trumbull Esq.r; lower center: London, Published March 1798, by A.C. de Poggi, No. 91, New Bond Street / The Death of General Montgomery / In the Attack of Quebec Dec.r 1775; lower right: Engraved by J. T. Clemens

Exhibition History

Death and Dying: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 26, 1995.

Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-March 21, 1976.

The Napoleonic Era, Strauss and Barrows Galleries and Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-September 3, 1979.

Town of New London (NH) Bicentennial, New London, New Hampshire, October 19-November 7, 1979.

Unlayering Stereotypes: Selections from the Permanent Collection For Teaching Cultural Anthropology, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 7, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 20, 1995.

Provenance

Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1957.

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