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Description: | Engraving . On a snowy morning in 1775, British and Canadian troops waited in the town of Quebec for the ambush they were expecting from General Montgomery’s battalion. As Montgomery neared the town, he dashed forward, calling his men to follow. A hail of shot from the Canadian side killed the leader and several of his troops, instantly. In this dramatic composition, Trumbull shows Montgomery dying in the arms of Major Matthias Ogden, while his two aides-de-camp are already dead in the snow. To the left of the composition, comrades express their shock and distress at the sight before them. Just left of Montgomery, Colonel Joseph Louis Cook, a Native American Officer who served in the Continental Army, raises his tomahawk defiantly.
John Trumbull’s original oil painting for ‘The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec’ (1786) is at Yale University Art Gallery, along with two preparatory studies for the painting. | Subjects: | tomahawk breeches death military uniform general cannon topography flag 18th century costume musket Native/Central American snow American Revolutionary War boots bayonet Richard Montgomery | Jacob Cheeseman | John Macpherson | Donald Campbell | William Thompson | Atiatoharongwen | Return Jonathan Meigs | William Hendricks | Samuel Ward | John Humphries | Samuel Cooper | Matthias Ogden Battle of Quebec | Temporal: | 1798 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Johan Frederik Clemens (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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