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Art and Artifacts in Cost of Revolution

View a selection of the art and artifacts collected from around the world that were on display in the Museum of the American Revolution's special exhibition, Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier, which ran from Sept. 2019 to March 2020.

Art & Artifacts in Cost of Revolution

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© National Museum of Ireland
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Theobald Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen membership card © National Museum of Ireland
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Lord Edward Fitzgerald (ca. 1798) © National Museums NI Collection Ulster Museum
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Lord Edward Fitzgerald's ribbon © National Museum of Ireland
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Battle of Paoli by Xavier della Gatta Museum of the American Revolution
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Battle of Germantown by Xavier della Gatta Museum of the American Revolution
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Germantown medal Private Collection
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British Officer's Fusil and Bayonet Museum of the American Revolution
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Plan of the Battle of Brandywine Museum of the American Revolution
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Portrait of William Dansey on loan from the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum, Halifax, UK
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Trephine on loan from the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Portrait of Anthony Wayne Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2018
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Portrait of Walter Stewart Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr., B.S. 1936
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Portrait of Deborah McClenachan Stewart Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr., B.S. 1936
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Irish Volunteers jug © National Museums NI Collection Ulster Museum
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Irish Volunteers belt plate © National Museum of Ireland
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Anne Stepney St. George and Richard James Mansergh St. George August Heckscher Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, N.Y.
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Richard St. George (ca. 1776) by Thomas Gainsborough National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1922
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Richard St. George (ca. 1790s) Private Collection
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Richard St. George self-portrait (ca. 1780s-1790s) Museum of the American Revolution, Gift of Mr. Roger Shuttlewood
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Richard St. George (ca. 1796) by Hugh Douglas Hamilton Photo © National Gallery of Ireland
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Maps of the Estate of Richard St. George Mansergh St. George Esqr in the County of Galway in 1775 Galway County Council Archives, Ireland
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An Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

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