The Rescue–Sergeants Newton and Jasper of Marion's Brigade, rescuing American prisoners from a British guard, who had stacked their muskets while resting near a spring, South Carolina, 1779.

Currier & Ives

1876 · Hand-colored lithograph · Drawings and Prints

The Rescue–Sergeants Newton and Jasper of Marion's Brigade, rescuing American prisoners from a British guard, who had stacked their muskets while resting near a spring, South Carolina, 1779. — Currier & Ives

Scene from the American Revolution. American soldiers hold four British soldiers at musket point, three already wounded. The captive Americans, a man and woman with a baby, remain crouched at left.

Artist: Currier & Ives
Date: 1876
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962