Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Sartain, John, engraver; after John B. White. Gen. Marion in his Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner. Hand-colored mezzotint, 17 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches; cropped with loss of imprint line, two short closed tears on top edge, mount remnants on 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.