Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Tanner, et al.; after Renault. The British Surrendering their Arms to Gen. Washington after their Defeat at York Town. Engraving, 23 1/2 x 34 inches; mat toning, unevenly cropped with loss of bottom line of caption, small hole in caption area, backed with tissue, mount remnants on verso. [Philadelphia, 1819]

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The artist John Francis Renault had served as a secretary to the Comte de Grasse at Yorktown, and remained in America after the war. Washington, Lafayette, Hamilton, Cornwallis, and several others are identified in the key. American Battle Art 29.