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Object Record
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Object name |
Painting |
Title |
Col. Knox Bringing the Cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to the Siege of Boston |
Artist or maker |
John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945) |
Date |
1932 |
Place of origin |
United States |
Materials and techniques |
oil on canvas |
Physical description |
Col. Knox (on white horse) watching a team of oxen bringing cannons from Boston to Fort Ticonderoga. The oxen are guarded by soldiers. |
Past exhibit |
Dunsmore: Illustrating the American Revolutionary War |
Current exhibit |
Path to Liberty: The War Reimagined |
Gallery label |
Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation (2025): Henry Knox (1750-1806) was a self-taught military expert by the age of twenty-five. Joining the American Continental Army just after the start of the Revolution, Knox quickly distinguished himself both in battle and as an administrator. In December of 1775, Knox began an arduous task of transporting around sixty cannons and mortars (nearly 120,000 pounds of artillery) from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York to Cambridge, Massachusetts. His team of men made the three hundred mile rough road trek in less than two months with the help of eighty yoked oxen and forty-two sledges. With this "noble train of artillery," as Knox referred to the caravan, the American army was able to end the siege of Boston. |
Catalogue number |
1936.02.009 |
Collection name |
Paintings and Sculpture |
Credit line |
Gift of George A. Zabriskie Memorial, 1936 |
People |
Dunsmore, John Ward |