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The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common

The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common

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The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common
ArtistAmerican, 1804–1865
ArtistAmerican, 1801–1876, Boston
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common
Date1837
PlaceBoston, Massachusetts, United States
MediumLithograph on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 20 1/4 in. (37.5 × 51.4 cm)
 Sheet: 20 × 23 3/4 in. (50.8 × 60.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 1988"
Object numberB.88.27
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionThe National Lancers, established in 1836, were an elite unit within the Massachusetts militia created largely for ceremonial functions that also served as a social organization for members. In nineteenth-century military strategy, lancers were fast-moving, first-wave attackers who charged the enemy followed by troops with weapons better suited to close combat. Their uniforms usually included a distinctive, flat-topped hat called a czapka, signifying the Polish derivation of most lancers’ uniforms.
Provenance[Susan Sheehan, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1988.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed below image: C. Hubbard del. On Stone by F.H. Lane Moore's Lithography, Boston. / THE NATIONAL LANCERS WITH THE REVIEWING OFFICERS ON BOSTON COMMON. /Taken from the Original Painting (as designed and executed by C. Hubbard) on the Standard, which was presented to the Company of His Excellency the Governor of Massachusetts, on the 30th..[th superscript with two periods [..] underneath] of August 1837. / This print published by request is respectfully dedicated to the Corps. Boston, Sept 1837
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