$550
Estimate: $300 - $500
Auction: June 20, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Mezzotint engraving. C. Shepherd, publisher; Thomlinson, printer. (London), 1775.
"An idealized portrait with little resemblance to Lee, whom the Dictionary of National Biography describes as 'tall and remarkably thin with an ugly face and an aquiline nose of enormous size.' This portrait was printed early in the war with the expectation that Lee would play a major role due to his past experience in the French and Indian conflict." Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 147.