Engraving
- Title:
- Le Major Robert Roger
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.0903
- Date:
- 1731
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of Major Robert Rogers (1731-1795). Steel engraving printed on paper. Bust length portrait of a man with dark hair, hat with a large feather in the back, white collar,black cravat, dark vest and military jacket with gold buttons, a sash with geometric design going from the left shoulder to the right waist, looking to the right holding a gun with a dark gray background. The portrait is enclosed in an oval surrounded by leaves with a bow at the top with a wreath in the center and at the bottom a shield, a drape and metal telescope and sword. "LE MAJOR ROBERT ROGER / Commandant en Chef les Troupes Indiennes au fervice des / Americains", "A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques a la Ville De Coutances, A. P..D.R." printed beneath the portrait. In the reverse in pencil on the diagonal "4 3/4 X 6 3/4"
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9 W-7 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Rogers, Robert (1731-1795)
- Subjects:
- Rogers, Robert, French and Indian War
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