Charles Lee Esquier.Major Général d'Armee des XIII Provinces unies d'Amerique, Prisonier de Guerre, fait par les Anglois.
peint par Thomlinson a Novelle Yorck.
Se vend a Londres chez Thom. Hart. [n.d. c.1778.]
Mezzotint, 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"), with very large margins. Paper lightly toned, three small worm holes in frame and background.
Portrait of Charles Lee (1731-82), British-born general during the American Revolution. After successes at Charleston in 1776 he was captured by Banastre Tarleton and held as a prisoner of war until he was exchanged in 1778. Returning to the Continent army he led a frontal assault the Battle of Monmouth (1778), but ordered his men to pull back instead of attacking the retreating English. Washington had him court-martialed and dismissed. The artist's name 'Thomlinson' is regarded as a pseudonym for a plagiarist.
BM Satires 5404. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43388] £790.00
Se vend a Londres chez Thom. Hart. [n.d. c.1778.]
Mezzotint, 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"), with very large margins. Paper lightly toned, three small worm holes in frame and background.
Portrait of Charles Lee (1731-82), British-born general during the American Revolution. After successes at Charleston in 1776 he was captured by Banastre Tarleton and held as a prisoner of war until he was exchanged in 1778. Returning to the Continent army he led a frontal assault the Battle of Monmouth (1778), but ordered his men to pull back instead of attacking the retreating English. Washington had him court-martialed and dismissed. The artist's name 'Thomlinson' is regarded as a pseudonym for a plagiarist.
BM Satires 5404. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43388] £790.00