Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Roger, L., engraver; after Jean Duplessis-Bertaux. Indépendance des États-Unis. Hand-colored aquatint, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, plate mark 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, the aquatint in a 5-inch circle, with engraved text beneath; minor foxing and 4 pinholes. Paris: Blin, 1786
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Celebrates the alliance of France and the United States. The allegorical American Indian has defeated the British lion, and stands by a pedestal surmounted by portraits of American heroes Franklin and Waginston [sic]--with a portrait of Louis XVI and the French fleurs-de-lis above them.