Provincial General Buttons Marching to Saratoga with Plunder.

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• ARTIST: John Kay

• MEDIUM: Etching and aquatint,

  DATE: 1786

• EDITION SIZE: Plate size 5 3/16 x 4 3/4" (13 x 12.1 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: A small engraved image of General "Buttons" riding on a horse to Saratoga.<br><br> GENERAL BUTTONS, AN AMERICAN OFFICER. Of this hero of the War of Independence, nothing farther is known than the fact that such a person did actually serve in the American army. The drawing, says Kay, in his MS, from which this print is taken, was done by Colonel Archibald Cambell while confined in prison in America, after the treaty of Saratoga. Through a small hole, the only aperture for light in his dungeon the Colonel had frequent opportunities of seeing General Buttons; and, notwithstanding the gloomy nature of his situation, he could not resist the impulse of taking a sketch of such a remarkable military figure." This sketch he sent home for the amusement of his friends, by whom it was communicated to the artist, for the purpose of more extended circulation.

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• CONDITION: Good condition. B/W

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical