The Escape of Sergeant Champe – Antique 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 Escape of Sergeant Champe brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Escape of Sergeant Champe
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Sergeant John Champe, a Virginia-born soldier in Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee's dragoons, is the figure at the center of this scene. In 1780 Champe volunteered to desert to the British in New York, with the aim of seizing Benedict Arnold, the American officer who had turned traitor. The abduction plan fell through, and Champe had to escape his pursuers and make his way back to American lines. Currier & Ives issued the print around 1876, the centennial decade, when many of its lithographs revisited Revolutionary episodes as tales of patriotic daring for a popular audience.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1900. |
| Subjects | Champe, John,--1752-1798--Military service. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Covert operation. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110676 |
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