Sujet

John Montresor, c1771. Creator: John Singleton Copley.

Légende

John Montresor, c1771. Montresor holds a book titled Field Enginr, referencing his profession in the Royal Corps of Engineers. He traveled to Detroit in 1763 and again in 1764, drawing maps of Fort Detroit and the surrounding shore of the Detroit River during a period of organized resistance by Indigenous peoples across the Great Lakes against the British army’s assertion of control in the region.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A53_109

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,8Mo (4,3Mo) / 34,5cm x 42,0cm / 4071 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature portrait tree people male job man men red historical plant plants arts painting engineering engineer country leaning art guy occupation British color profile tree trunk scene uniform dress military war depiction location Armed Forces century Colonial gallery Britain profession officer cartography concept APPAREL Army warfare art gallery oil Painting United States of America Colour Realism treetrunk armed services Realist 18th century British Army colonel Eighteenth Century culture American history historic trees America USA artistic movement cartographer colonialism leaning on elbow map-making Oil on canvas Mapmaking united states John Singleton Copley John Copley John Singleton J. S. Copley R. A. Oil on canvas art centre Detroit Institute of Arts 1770s 1771 art movement Corps of Engineers Heritage Art mapmaker army officer clothing & dress fashion & clothing field engineer John Copley American Art before 1950 John Montresor Montresor