Dec 07, 2023 - Sale 2655

Sale 2655 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR.) Nathaniel Currier; Sarony & Major; and others. Group of 13 small folio hand-colored lithographs. Varying condition, but each in need of some degree of conservation. New York, late 1840s

Additional Details

Curriers:
- Mexican Guerrilleros. Mexico in 1845.

- Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers at the Battle of Buena Vista Feby. 23d, 1847.

- The Brilliant Charge of Capt. May at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma (Palm Ravine) 9th of May, 1846. In which gallant exploit he captured the whole of the enemy's cannon and took Genl. La Vega prisoner of war.

- Battle of Resaca de la Palma May 9th, 1846. Capture of Genl. Vega by the gallant Capt. May.

- U.S. Dragoons, Cutting their Way Through a Mexican Ambuscade.

- Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Febr. 23rd, 1847.

- James K. Polk Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States.

- Martin van Buren, Free Soil Candidate for Twelfth President of the United States.


Sarony & Major:
- Genl. Ampudia treating for the Capitulation of Monterey, with Genl. Taylor, 24th Sept: 1846.

- The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold. Who was mortally wounded during the engagement of the 8th May, & died on the 10th, 1846.


James Baillie:
- Genl. Zachary Taylor. The Hero of Buena Vista.


E.B. & E.G. Kellogg:
- Capture of the City of Mexico, by Genl. Scott, on the 14th Sept. 1847.


Richard Magee:
- General Scott at the Taking of Vera Cruz March 22nd 23rd & 24th 1847.