The Rescue, Sergeants Newton and Jasper, South Carolina, c. 1876 by Currier & Ives

The Rescue, Sergeants Newton and Jasper, South Carolina, c. 1876, by Currier & Ives is a hand-colored lithograph whose printed caption describes 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, in South Carolina in 1779. Currier & Ives of New York, the most prolific American printmaking firm of the nineteenth century, published the print under a copyright dated 1876, and an impression is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artist: Currier & Ives, American printmaking firm and publisher, active 1857–1907. Date: c. 1876 (depicted event: 1779).

The Rescue, Sergeants Newton and Jasper, South Carolina. Nineteenth-Century American Lithograph Canvas Print.