File:The death of general warren at the battle of bunker hill.jpg
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Title | The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17,1775. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1786 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 75.56 × 50.16 cm (29.7 × 19.7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Object history | The artist; commissioned by the Warren family; descended in the Warren family to J. Collins Warren, 1909-27; to Joseph Warren, 1927-42; to his estate; to Howland Shaw Warren, 1946; to MFA, 1977, gift of Howland S. Warren. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, accession #1977.853: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-death-of-general-warren-at-the-battle-of-bunker-s-hill-17-june-1775-34260 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Annotations | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
A slave, once believed to be Peter Salem.
Major John Small, British officer holding Warren.
Joseph Warren
Thomas Grosvenor
A black freeman, possibly Peter Salem.
General Israel Putnam, colonial officer.
Colonist Thomas Knowlton.
Major John Pitcairn, dying in his son's arms.
General Henry Clinton.
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