His Excellency William Heath, Major General in the American Army
Engraver John Norman American, born England
Sitter William Heath American
Not on view
A bust length portrait of Nathaniel Green in uniform, facing right within an oval frame topped with swags, set over a small landscape that shows a woman allegorically representing America, nursing two children representing different races, and looking back at British and American armies confronting one another. Published as an illustration in "An impartial history of the war in America, between Great Britain and the United States, from its commencement to the end of the war," Boston, printed by Nathaniel Coverly and Robert Hodge, 1781, v. 1, frontispiece.
