PUBLISHER: London, Published as the act directs, 10 May 1778. by John Morris.
MEDIUM: Mezzotint,
DATE: c.1778.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 13 x 9 3/8" (33 x 23.9 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Se vend chez J .M. Will a Augsburg. General Horatio Gates, 1727-1806. English officer, served in America during the French and Indian War with fellow officers George Washington, Charles Lee and Thomas Gage. He was wounded at Fort Duquesne in 1755 and retired from the army in 1765. In 1772 Horatio Gates moved with his family to Virginia. Gates accepted appointment as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia militia, and when the Revolution broke out, he took the American side. In 1775 he was made an Adjutant General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General. He served in the Saratoga campaign and was in command at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina. In this print Gates has his hand on a stack of paper with the caption, “Arti of Convention between Gen. Gates and Gen. Burgogne.” This print was published in Augsburg by Johann Martin Will (1727-1806) based on one published in London by John Morris in 1778. <br><br>
ADDITIONAL INFO: Provenance of this impression is Zachary T. Hollingsworth, who upon his death in 1925, bequeathed it to his son, Valentine, who upon his death in 1942, bequeathed it to his son, Mark Hollingsworth. This print was acquired from the wife of Mark Hollingsworth.
CONDITION: Good condition.
REFERENCE: Cresswell, "American Revolution in Drawings and Prints" #82, Will imprint.
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