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Last Moments of Major Andre.

  • ARTIST: M. Wageman

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Virtue & Yorston, New York.

  • MEDIUM: Engraving, hand colored,

    DATE: 1861

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 4 7/8 x 7 1/2" (12.4 x 19.1 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: A 19th-century perspective of John Andre, captured as a steel engraving by F. F. Walker. John Andre was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: The piece is in an archival mylar for handling.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

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