Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 475

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(WAR OF 1812--PRINTS.) Debucourt, Philibert-Louis, engraver; after Laclotte. Defeat of the British Army . . . by Major General Andrew Jackson . . . Five Miles Below New Orleans. Aquatint, 22 x 27 inches; faint dampstaining, moderate edge wear, a single worm hole in the image area. Np, image dated 8 January 1815

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A remarkably detailed panoramic view of the Battle of New Orleans. The artist, Jean-Hyacinthe Laclotte, sketched the battle while serving as an engineer in the First Louisiana Militia. Album of American Battle Art 47.