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Das erste Burger-Blut, zu Grundung der Americanischen Freyheit, vergossen bey Lexington am 19ten April 1774. [graphic].
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Creator
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801 etcher.
Title
Das erste Burger-Blut, zu Grundung der Americanischen Freyheit, vergossen bey Lexington am 19ten April 1774. [graphic].
Title
Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775
Publisher
[Leipzig: Haude and Spener von Berlin]
Publisher
GERMANY. Leipzig. 1783
Date
[1783]
Physical Description
1 print: etching; 10 x 6 cm. (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description
Scene depicting the Battle of Lexington showing British soldiers firing into an undisciplined group of Massachusetts militiamen.
Is referenced by
Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 251.
Notes
Inscribed upper left corner: S. 84.
Plate 3 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D).
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775.
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns & battles.
Genre
Etchings -- 1780-1790.
Book illustrations -- 1780-1790.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.3]
Accession number
P.8935.3
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