Nancy Hart (Georgia) [engraving]

Nancy Hart (Georgia) [engraving]

Annals of the United States illustrated : The women of the Revolution Pl. II

New York Goupil & Co. c.by M. Knoedler, 1853

1 handcolored print ; inside mat 46 x 57 cm. outside mat 66 x 76 cm. framed 75 x 84 cm.

P&E L2007D2 framed

Scene of Nancy Hart, holding a rifle as her daughter crouches behind her after being discovered passing the rifles of the five British Loyalist's to her father while the enemy were eating the meal they had required Nancy Hart to prepare for them. Confronted by the soldiers, Nancy Hart used one of their rifles to kill one man and injure a second after which the enemy surrendered. Rectangle with single line border 5/16. Inserted in the border at the top is the alternate title: Annals of the United States illustrated : The women of the Revolution Pl. II. Below the border are the citations to the artist on the left and to the lithographer on the right. Next to the name of the lithographer it reads: Printed by Lemercier, Paris. In the center is the copyright information.
Below the print is the title and a description of the scene from Mrs. Ellet's book, The women of the American Revolution, Vol. II, p. 228. The title and the description are printed in English of the left, and in French on the right. The name of the publisher appears at the bottom in the center.
The print is framed with a beige silk covered quarter-inch thick mat with gold trim around the inside next to the engraving and a black wooden 1 3/4 inch frame with an inner gold trimmed edge to match the mat.
This engraving was photographed for reproduction, along with the companion engraving of Elisabeth Grace and Rachel Martin, as Chapter One illustrations in the book, Side-by-Side, a photographic history of American women in war, by Vickie Lewis, in 1999. The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection.
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