Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WAR OF 1812). Broughton, Glover. Dartmoor Prison, Drawn by Glover Broughton. 1815. Lithographed bird's eye view with title and reference key below. 19x26 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in part; mounted to stiff card and age toned, small tear just into image at right edge; classic period lemon gold frame. Boston: Tappan and Bradford, 1853

Additional Details

Aerial schematic plan of the English penal camp with a central scene depicting the chaos of April 6th, 1815 whereupon guards fired their rifles toward a rabble of American war prisoners during an ill-perceived breakout attempt, killing and wounding many.