Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781 – Antique Print
(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 Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781
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Currier's hand-colored lithograph shows the moment the British army laid down its arms at Yorktown, Virginia, in October 1781, a result that effectively ended major fighting in the American Revolution. The surrender followed a siege in which combined American and French forces, under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau, closed in on Lord Cornwallis's army after a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse had cut off its escape by sea. The print was issued by Nathaniel Currier around 1846, decades after the event, when lithographs like this one were popular for filling parlor walls with scenes of national history.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
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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. 6370. |
| Subjects | Surrenders--British--Virginia--Yorktown--1780-1790. Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Surrenders--British. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,270 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175146 |
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