Richard Mansergh St. George drew this sketch of a rifleman from Washington’s army. St. George accurately depicted the rifleman wearing a fringed linen hunting shirt. He inverted the revolutionary motto on the rifleman’s powder horn from “liberty or death” to “death or liberty,” perhaps to show contempt for his enemy.
A Virginian Rifleman
Drawn by Richard Mansergh St. George
1777-1778
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Courtesy of the Harlan Crow Library, Dallas, Texas