Image: Butler's Rangers Lefferts

Description: Uniforms of the American Revolution: Private, Butler's Rangers, British Army, 1777. Gift of Charles MacKubin Lefferts to the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library OBJECT NUMBER: 1921.113 ARTIST/MAKER: Charles MacKubin Lefferts DATE: c. 1910 MEDIUM: Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on board DIMENSIONS: Overall: 14 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. ( 37.8 x 23.8 cm ) mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. ( 48.9 x 36.2 cm ) MARKS: signature: lower right:"Chas M. Lefferts" INSCRIPTIONS: Signed at lower right in brown watercolor: "Chas. M. Lefferts"; inscribed along upper edge: "Butler's Rangers British Army 1777 A Private" GALLERY LABEL: This is one of the original studies by Lefferts for his landmark Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution, 1775-1783, published by the Society in 1926. The result of a lifetime of research by the artist and author, this volume was the first major published treatise on regimental uniforms of the Revolutionary war.
Title: Butler's Rangers Lefferts
Credit: http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/uniforms-american-revolution-private-butlers-rangers-british-army-1777; https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/37996/uniforms-of-the-american-revolution-private-butlers-range?ctx=7c7665396dd6779bbc0bd578b825b05ba3e48954&idx=33
Author: Charles M. Lefferts
Permission: This work is in the public domain, because it was published in the United States before january 1, 1927. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years.
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License: Public domain
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