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![The Honorable Robert Monckton [1726-1782], Governor of New York, 1761; Major General of His Majesty's Forces…Governor of Berwick](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ci/AL18g_SD9wkAkdysRm0W5AM_Hb20LpmwtafmJlEzyt8L1MaMq2dLLmMEbWk565HyOi4LOk1GlbvwpVQ)
The Honorable Robert Monckton [1726-1782], Governor of New York, 1761; Major General of His Majesty's Forces…Governor of Berwick
Benjamin Westca. 1761
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Honorable Robert Monckton [1726-1782], Governor of New York, 1761; Major General of His Majesty's Forces…Governor of Berwick
- Creator: James Watson after Benjamin West
- Date Created: ca. 1761
- Subject Keywords: male portraits, military, portraits
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate below image, lower right: “I. Watson Sculpt.”
- Print State: Fourth of four states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, 1978
- Materials & Techniques: Mezzotint on laid paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: 1790
- Bibliography: B.M. vol. 3, p. 251; C.S. 103; Russell, (1926) 103 (vol. 2, p. 389)
- Associated People: Created by James Watson (Irish, ca. 1740 - 1790), After Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820)
- Accession Number: 1978.1.10
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