Lucy knox american revolution illustration portrait
Lucy knox letters This silhouette of Lucy Flucker Knox, the wife of U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox, was drawn in Philadelphia by "a son of Robert Morris the financier of the Revolution." The aristocratic Lucy Knox is depicted with an elaborate hair arrangement and a tall hat perched on top.
Lucy knox family Lucy Flucker bucked her family's expectations to marry for status and money and, instead, married for love. Illustration by Dale Watson. In creating his unique art Watson used historical descriptions, images, and other resources to represent the figure or scene.
Lucy Flucker Knox posed for Depicted here with an elaborate hair arrangement topped with a gravity-defying tall hat, Lucy Flucker Knox posed for this caricature in Philadelphia in The amateur painted silhouette is attributed to one of the sons of the financier Robert Morris.
Lucy Knox, c.1790 by American Lucy Flucker Knox (August 2, – June 20, ) was an American revolutionary. She was the daughter of colonial official Thomas Flucker and Hannah Waldo, daughter of Samuel Waldo. She married Henry Knox, who became a leading officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Lucy Flucker Knox (1756-1824) defied Lucy Knox on the home front during the Revolutionary War, (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History).
Wife of the Secretary of War While obviously a caricature, this illustration does demonstrate two of Lucy Knox's most commonly noted features: her girth and her hair. Abigail Adams Smith remarked to her mother in mid that “Mrs. Knox is much altered from the character she used to have. She is neat in her dress, attentive to her family, and very fond of her children.
Henry and Lucy Knox sacrificed Lucy Flucker Knox () defied eighteenth-century gender roles throughout her life. Rather than marrying a man of equal class, Lucy disobeyed her family’s wishes and married her true love, Henry Knox, who would become a major general of the Continental Army.