Print

Title:

Plan of York Town in Virginia and Adjacent Country

Object Name:

Print

Creator:

J. F. Renault after Sebastian Bauman. Re-engraved by Benjamin Tanner

Date:

1825

Material:

Ink on paper

Dimensions:

H-4.75 L-21 Dia-7 inches
Print block area:
H:31 x W: 20.125

Description:

Framed black and white 1825 engraving "PLAN OF YORK TOWN IN VIRGINIA AND ADJACENT COUNTRY. Exhibiting the operations of the American French English armies during the Siege of that place in Oct. 1781. Surveyed from the 22nd to the 28th Octr." Large-scale map of the Battle of Yorktown drawn from the original 1782 Copper plate engraving by Sebastian Bauman. It was redrawn in 1824 by J.F. Renault with a crow quill pen and presented to the Marquis de La Fayette. It was re-engraved in 1825 by Benjamin Tanner in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

The print was made by Benjamin Tanner in 1825 in Phillidelphia. It was then purchased by the American Independence Museum from The Old Print Shop., Inc. 150 Lexington avenue at 30th Street, New York, NY.

Subjects:

Maps, Battles, Battlefields, War, Revolutions, Military, Military occupations, Military tactics

People:

Bauman, Sebastian, Renault, J.F.

Place of Origin:

Phillidelphia, Pennsylvania

Collection Name:

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire

Item Number:

2012.020

Accession Number:

2012.020

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Credit Line:

American Independence Museum

Participating Organization:

American Independence Museum