John Bull and the Baltimoreans

by William Charles, artist and engraver

$3,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Philadelphia, 1814 . Etching and roulette, 10.25” x 14.25” plus margins. CONDITION: Good, various tears in margins expertly repaired on verso with paper pulp, old creases through outer portions of image now flattened and only faintly visible, crease in bottom margin into title. A marvelous War of 1812 satire by Philadelphia printmaker and caricaturist William Charles, showing the defenders of Baltimore driving off a superior number of

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