about Warren 1781-1800

Source: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.  (left) Major General Joseph Warren study for Bunker Hill, not dated [1785], by John Trumbull (1756-1843), accession #1952.3.1b.  The sketch has never been published or displayed publicly.  (right) Death of Major General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775 [1785-86] also by John […]

Source: Yale University Art Gallery, Study for Death of General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, by John Trumbull, September 1785, catalog 1993.79.1.  In: Peter Hawes, A Great Panorama Celebrating Twenty-five Years of American Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 52, ill.   It has not […]

Source: Yale University Art Gallery, Study for Death of General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, by John Trumbull, 1785-1786.  Catalog 2005.7.1.   It has never been publicly displayed. Commentary:  John Trumbull (1756-1843) was an American painter who devoted his career to historical genre paintings and portraits depicting American Revolutionary era events and […]

Date: circa 1800 Author: John Warren “In some of the more populous towns, students were sometimes indulged with the privilege of examining the bodies of those who had died from any extraordinary diseases; and in a few instances, associations were formed for pursuing the business of dissection, where opportunities offered, from casualties or from public […]

by John Collins Warren I Date: 1796 “No occurrences in the course of my life have given me more trouble and anxiety than the procuring of subjects for dissection in the medical lectures. My father began to dissect early in the Revolutionary War. He obtained the office of Army Surgeon when the Revolution broke out, […]