- Title:
- Timothy Pickering
- Object Name:
- Creator:
- T.B. Welch; T.B. Welch, engraver
- Date:
- 1830-1860
- Material:
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.75 L-21 Dia-7 inches
Document as seen:
Height: 6.500"
Width: 4.500" - Description:
- Framed engraving of a drawing that was patterned after Gilbert Stuart's original painting of Timothy Pickering. Underneath the engraving there is text that reads: "Engraved by T.B. Welch from a drawing by J.B. Longacre after G. Stuart." Also included is the name of Timothy Pickering, as well as his signature.
- Provenance:
- Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) of Salem, Massachusetts, was a lawyer by trade, having graduated from Harvard in 1763. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Essex Militia in 1766 and began to study military history and tactics, which led to his writing of An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia. This manual was used by Continental troops until superseded in 1779 by the more extensive (and more famous) volume by Baron von Steuben.
Pickering served as Adjutant General under General Washington from 1777 to 1780, issuing many of the general's orders, and traveling with the army. In August 1780, Pickering was appointed Quartermaster General of the Continental Army. The Quartermaster General's job was to obtain supplies for the army (including food, weapons, and uniforms), and to coordinate transportation for the army when it moved. Pickering had great difficulty in providing the necessary supplies due to insufficient funds. At one point, a frustrated Pickering wrote to Congress, "If any man can, without money, carry on the extensive business of this department, I wish most sincerely he would take my place. I confess myself incapable of doing it."
Thomas B. Welch was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was apprenticed to artist and engraver James Barton Longacre in Philadelphia. A Southern sympathizer, Welch returned home at the outbreak of the Civil War. - Subjects:
- Portrait, Prints, Engravings, American Revolution
- Place of Origin:
- United States
- Collection Name:
- Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire
- Item Number:
- 2009.028
- Accession Number:
- 2009.028
- Type of Material:
- Objects
- Copyright Statement:
- For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the American Independence Museum
- Credit Line:
- American Independence Museum
- Participating Organization:
- American Independence Museum
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