Charles Lee, Esqr. Major General of the Continental-Army in America

by C. Corbutt, after Thomlinson, pseudonym R. Purcell

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine impression of this early print of Charles Lee, the famous General of the American Revolution. Public demand for portraits of Revolutionary heroes was not limited to America but spread to English and European print shops, where an inquisitive audience clamored for a glimpse of the key figures of the war. Public interest reached such a frenzy that European printmakers published fictitious portraits before they had accurate likenesses of the sitters and thus, many of the

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