The Capture of Andre 1780 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of The Capture of Andre 1780 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Capture of Andre 1780
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Captured in September 1780 near Tarrytown, New York, British officer John André was returning from a secret meeting with Benedict Arnold, who had agreed to surrender West Point. Three American militiamen stopped him, and the plans they found hidden in his stockings turned a clandestine arrangement into proof of treason. Made around 1845, this hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives revisits the scene some six decades later, when the firm was producing popular views of American history for a wide public. André was hanged as a spy in October 1780, and the episode remained one of the most dramatic stories of the Revolution.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1845. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 898 |
| Subjects | André, John,--1751-1780--Capture & imprisonment. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Covert operations--British. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,466 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216510 |
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