The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold
1846
Hand colored lithograph on wove paper
Overall: 10 1/8 × 13 7/8 in. (25.7 × 35.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.972.145
Printer
Sarony and Major, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, lower left: LITH. & PUB BY SARONY & MAJOR; center: Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1846, by Sarony & Major, in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the Southern Dist. of N. York; lower right: 117 FULTON St NY; center: THE DEATH OF THE GALLANT MAJOR RINGGOLD / Who was mortally wounded during the engagement of the 8th May, & Died on the 10th 1846.
Provenance
Source unknown; catalogued, 1972.
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