Capture of Andre 1780 by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
date: label: date made
content: ca 1847
label: date made
content: 1846-1847
name: label: distributor
content: Needham, D.
label: depicted
content: Andre, John
label: depicted
content: Pauling, John
label: depicted
content: Williams, David
label: depicted
content: Van Wart, Isaac
label: maker
content: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
label: maker
content: Kelloggs & Thayer
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand colored print depicts the capture of the British spy Major John Andre (1750-1780) by three American militia men identified as Pauling, Van Wart, and Williams below the image. They are depicted discovering the incriminating papers concerning the surrender of West Point, written by Benedict Arnold in Andre's boots. Andre, who was head of the British Secret Service in America, was captured outside Fort Saint-Jean near Haverstraw, New York. While Isaac Van Wart and David Williams were suspicious, they were illiterate, however, John Pauling could read, and recognized the papers carried by Andre identified him as a spy. Andre was popular with his captors, however after a trial, the Americans hung him as a spy on October 2, 1780.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This print was produced by the Hartford, Connecticut lithographic firm of E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Edmund Burke Kellogg and Elijah Chapman Kellogg were younger brothers of the founder of the Kellogg lithography firm, Daniel Wright Kellogg. After Daniel Wright Kellogg moved west, his two brothers took over the family lithography firm in 1840 and changed the name to E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. They were responsible for the continued success of the family firm and involved in partnerships with Horace Thayer in 1846-47, John Chenevard Comstock in 1848 and William Henry Bulkeley in 1867.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Dwight Needham of Buffalo was the co-publisher/ distributor or agent for this print.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Revolutionary War
label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Diplomacy
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: Subject
content: Spies
label: related event
content: American Revolution
label: related event
content: Capture of Major John Andre
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2569
label: catalog number
content: 60.2569
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 9 in x 12 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 32.385 cm