Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Sartain, John, engraver; after John B. White. Gen. Marion in his Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner. Mezzotint, 22 x 25 inches; marginal wear, minor foxing and mat toning, mount remnants on top edge verso. New York: Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, 1841
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The first print issued by what became the American Art-Union. It illustrates a story first set to print by Parson Weems in 1809 (the biographer who also brought us Washington and the cherry tree), in which a British officer visited Marion's camp to discuss an exchange of prisoners, and was treated to a crude dinner of sweet potatoes.