Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Berger, D., engraver; after Daniel Chodowiecki. Set of early German images of the war. 11 (of 12) engravings, each 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches; mount remnants on verso, attached to backing paper with hinges, along with a reproduction of missing print #6. [Leipzig, 1784]
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These small prints were produced for insertion in the "Historisch-genealogischer Calender . . . fuer 1784," a German work which was one of the first picture-books of the American Revolution. Subjects include the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Lexington, Franklin's arrival in France, Rochambeau's landing at Newport, the evacuation of New York, and more. Cresswell 243, 248, 251, 254, 261, 275, 277, 318, 315, 327, 343.