Collection Highlights
Dish: footed compote with cover
1825-1845
1936.693ab
Glass
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Flag
Object name
Flag
Date
1900-1950
Medium
Wool
Dimensions
Overall: 36 1/2 x 61 in. ( 92.7 x 154.9 cm )
Description
Wool machine sewn reproduction Bunker Hill flag; red field with a white canton bearing a green block-printed pine tree.
Object Number
INV.11423a
Gallery Label
No original flag survives from the Revolutionary battle of Bunker Hill. This reproduction of the John Trumbull version, after his painting of 1785-6, is based on the Massachussetts ensign. Although, it has been debated whether there was a flag flown on the hill at all. Current historians do not believe there was one, but Trumbull himself witnessed the battle, so it is possible that a flag of this type was flown or carried by a Massachussetts regiment.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
