Item Info
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
Joseph Warren was a Harvard trained physician and active leader in the events leading up to the Revolution. Although he was recently commissioned a major-general, Warren chose to fight as a solider instead of assuming command. Warren was shot dead on June 17, 1775 by a British soldier atop Breed's Hill in the Charlestown peninsula in the battle that became known as the Battle at Bunker Hill.
The text below image reads "Major General Joseph Warren │Who gloriously fell in the defence of American Liberty June ye 17th 1775." Probably copied from the original oil painting by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815).
Bibliography:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1904. A descriptive catalogue of an exhibition of early engraving in America, December 12, 1904 - February 5, 1905. Cambridge: the University Press. P.7.
Call Number: Elkengravings
Creator Name: Unknown - Engraver
The Bloody Massacre 
A New Display of the United States 
A Display of the United States of America 
His Excellency General Washington 
A New display of the United States 
Ye Foil’d, Ye Baffled Brittons. 
The True Portraiture of His Excellency George Washington Esqr. in the Roman Dress, as Ordered by Congress for the Monument to Be Erected in Philadelphia, to Perpetuate to Posterity the Man Who Commanded the American Forces Through the Late Glorious... 
Lord Cornwallis Surrendering his Sword to Genl. Washington 
His Excellency General Washington. 
The Late Heroic General Montgomery 
A View of Part of the Town of Boston In New England and Brittish Ships of War Landing Their Troops! 1768. 
Major General Joseph Warren
Great Warren Commanded, June 17, 1775 
The Hon’ble Charles Lee Esqr. 
Battles of Lexington and Concord. II. 
Battles of Lexington and Concord. IV. 
HONBLE. ISRAEL PUTNAM ESQR. 
The Hon. John Hancock 
The Late Heroic General Montgomery 
Great Warren Commanding, June 17, 1775