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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: at Yorktown Va. Oct 19th. 1781 – Historic Reproduction

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: at Yorktown Va. Oct 19th. 1781, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. — antique lithograph
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: at Yorktown Va. Oct 19th. 1781, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: at Yorktown Va. Oct 19th. 1781, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: at Yorktown Va. Oct 19th. 1781

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Few events drew more nineteenth-century print buyers than the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, and this Currier & Ives lithograph, issued around 1876, revisits that moment as the nation approached its centennial. Cornwallis did not attend the ceremony in person. He sent his deputy, Brigadier General Charles O'Hara, and the American side was represented by General Benjamin Lincoln. The surrender followed a siege by combined American and French forces, and it was effectively the last major campaign of the Revolutionary War.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6376
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,251 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122151

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