Price: $1,200.00
SKU: 86614
PUBLISHER: London, Pubd. Novr. 15, 1784 by R. Pollard No. 15 Braynes Row Spa Fields.
MEDIUM: Aquatint and line engraving,
DATE: 1784
EDITION SIZE: Image size 15 1/8 x 20 9/16" (38.4 x 52.3 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Drawn and engraved by Robert Pollard. Lady Harriet Ackland was an English noblewoman who married Major John Dyke Ackland. She traveled with him to Canada during the American Revolutionary War and upon hearing he was wounded in combat with the Americans, made her way through enemy lines to find and tend to her husband herself. An excerpt from the text below title reads, "This amiable lady...during two campaigns, underwent such fatigue & distress as female fortitude was thought incapable of supporting; and once she narrowly escaped with life from her tent which was set on fire at night. The event here commemorated deserves to be recorded in history. In the unfortunate action between G. Burgoyne & G. Gates Octr. 7, 1777, Major Ackland was wounded & made prisoner; when his Lady received the news she formed the heroic resolution of delivering herself into the hands of the enemy that she might attend him during his captivity. For this purpose, with a letter from G. Burgoyne & G. Gates, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Brudinell who carried the Flag of Truce, one servant & her husband valet, she rowed down the Hudson River in an open boat towards the American camp, but night coming on before she reached their outpost the guards on duty refused to receive her & threatened to fire upon her if she moved till morning. In this dreadful situation for 7 or 8 dark & cold hours, she was compelled to wait on the water half dead with anxiety & terror. The morning put an end to her distress, she was received by Gen. Gates & restored to her husband with that politeness & humanity her sex, quality & virtue so justly merited."
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fair condition, repairs within image. Tear on right goes 3/4" imto image
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