Battle of Cerro Gordo.

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• ARTIST: Carl Nebel

• PUBLISHER: Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York. Printed by printed by Lemercier, Paris.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph handcolored,

  DATE: 1851.

• EDITION SIZE: 10 7/8 x 16 3/4" (27.5 x 42.7 cm) plus title and margins.

• DESCRIPTION: Showing the approach of U.S. General WInfield Scott's troops to the strategic mountain pass of Cerro Gordo, where the American army won the first of several significant battles that would ultimately lead to their victory in the Mexican-American War. This view appeared in the portfolio “The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated. Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel, . . . With a Description of Each Battle, By Geo. Wilkins Kendall.” Kendall was the editor of the New Orleans newspaper “Daily Picayune” and traveled with the army as a war correspondent. He hired Nebel to create the twelve images that would be used to make prints to illustrate the book. Many consider this work to be most beautiful nineteenth-century publication relating to the early history of Texas.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Very good condition. Original hand coloring.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Historical , Mexican American War