Le General Gates, qui à environné et fait Prisonier le General Lieutenant Bourgogne, avec toute son Armée en Amerique .
London: Thomas Hart circa 1776. Mezzotint, stated to be after a painting by “Thomlinson a Nouvelle York,” trimmed but ample margins (9x6 ½ inches, 230x165 mm). Condition: Foxing, slight mat burn. Matted. Provenance : Frederic R. Halsey, 1847-1918 (collector's stamp on verso); Hampton L. Carson (sale, Stan V. Henkels, December 16-17, 1904). rare mezzotint of an american general, with esteemed provenance. Public interest in the American figures of the Revolution had reached such a frenzy that British printmakers published fictitious portraits before they had accurate likenesses of the sitters. Indeed, they would often use the same images but simply change the name of the sitter. This intriguing mezzotint of General Gates is just such a portrait. By title and description it represents itself as a portrait of Gates, who won the battle of Saratoga for the Continental Army, but it is in fact an earlier portrait of David Wooster. This copy of the portrait has esteemed provenance to two eminent early American print collectors: Frederic R. Halsey and Hampton L. Carson. The print is described by the catalogue to the famed Carson sale as “excessively rare.” Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 82-88 and 235-237.
Le General Gates, qui à environné et fait Prisonier le General Lieutenant Bourgogne, avec toute son Armée en Amerique .
London: Thomas Hart circa 1776. Mezzotint, stated to be after a painting by “Thomlinson a Nouvelle York,” trimmed but ample margins (9x6 ½ inches, 230x165 mm). Condition: Foxing, slight mat burn. Matted. Provenance : Frederic R. Halsey, 1847-1918 (collector's stamp on verso); Hampton L. Carson (sale, Stan V. Henkels, December 16-17, 1904). rare mezzotint of an american general, with esteemed provenance. Public interest in the American figures of the Revolution had reached such a frenzy that British printmakers published fictitious portraits before they had accurate likenesses of the sitters. Indeed, they would often use the same images but simply change the name of the sitter. This intriguing mezzotint of General Gates is just such a portrait. By title and description it represents itself as a portrait of Gates, who won the battle of Saratoga for the Continental Army, but it is in fact an earlier portrait of David Wooster. This copy of the portrait has esteemed provenance to two eminent early American print collectors: Frederic R. Halsey and Hampton L. Carson. The print is described by the catalogue to the famed Carson sale as “excessively rare.” Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 82-88 and 235-237.
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