Artist/Maker

Ramsay, David __author

Place Made

Date Made

1785

Medium

ink –paper –leather

Accession Number

5860.28

Description

David Ramsay, a Pennsylvania-born, Princeton-educated, Charleston, South Carolina, physician, believed that “the revolution of the governments of American, from British provinces into independent states, exhibited many useful lessons, both to princes and people.” Ramsay’s two-volume account of the conflict is one of the earliest histories of the American Revolution and includes a number of maps and plans detailing the conflict in the Palmetto State.

Credit Line

Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Mrs. Mary E. S. Hanahan