Princeton Battle Monument
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The Princeton Battle Monument is located in Princeton, New Jersey, adjacent to Morven and Princeton's borough hall. The monument commemorates the January 3, 1777 Battle of Princeton and depicts Genera
Battle of Princeton Monument
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 by John Trumbull
Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale (1779)
The south facade; the sides of the monument show the seal of the United States and the original thirteen colonies.
Frederick William MacMonnies
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Frederick William MacMonnies was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly accomplis
Princeton Battle Monument
…an equal sum raised independently. On February 24, 1908, having raised the requisite funds, the association commissioned prominent Beaux Arts sculptor Frederick MacMonnies to build the monument. The architectural design was done by Thomas Hastings of the acclaimed firm Carrère and Hastings. It was difficult to find an…
Self-portrait, 1896, Terra Foundation for American Art
Tabletop-sized copy of Nathan Hale, in the National Gallery of Art
Cupid by MacMonnies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1898
Reduced versions of his Pan of Rohallion became part of MacMonnies's stock in trade