Bergschotten Regiment, 1778, after Friedrich Konstantin August von Germann (1744–1794), from Stone, William. <i>Memoirs and letters and journals of Major General Riedesel, during his residence in America</i>. Albany: Munsell, 1868, 2 vols., New York Public Library. Provenance: Captain Friedrich Konstantin von Germann, was the commanding officer of Company 4, Hesse-Hanau Erbprinz Regiment, which fought along with the British in the American Revolutionary War. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/353945221/Brother-Jonathan-s-Images-No-11-An-American-Soldier-Artist-Friedrich-Konstantin-von-Germann-Year-Circa-1778">He took part in the 1777 Saratoga campaign, and painted a series of watercolors of American, British, and German soldiers around 1778 while in captivity</a>. According to Thomas M. Barker, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jsha.org/resumes/jshadx04.htm">an unknown artist copied in 1851-1852 Germann's original paintings and the copies are preserved in the municipal archives of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and are available as postcards</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/drawings-by-friedrich-von-germann#/?tab=navigation">The New York Public Library’s drawings</a> are thought to be 19th-century copies of von Germann’s watercolors, possibly by the artists E. Sack and Kail, whose names appear on the copies. They were commissioned by the New York historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leete_Stone_Jr." class="extiw" title="w:William Leete Stone Jr.">William Leete Stone Jr.</a> to illustrate a personal copy of his translation of the "Memoirs, and letters and journals, of Major General Riedesel during his residence in America." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/crandall/id/751/">Additionally, a set of 22 postcards in an envelop enclosure was reproduced in 2002 by Thomas Osfwald of Braunschweig, Germany. The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library acquired a set in 2002 and used it in the exhibition, Crafts of the Rev War Community, as a part of the project, Revolutionary Lives: To Commemorate the 225th Anniversary of the Battles of Saratoga</a>.
<bdi>After <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94846639" class="extiw" title="d:Q94846639"><span title="German soldier and watercolor painter">Friedrich Konstantin von Germann</span></a>
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circa 1778
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