1837 print KOSCIUSZKO'S GARDEN, WEST POINT, NEW YORK STATE, #66
$ 10.54
Description
1837 print KOSCIUSZKO'S GARDEN, WEST POINT, NEW YORK STATE, #66. Kosciuszko's Garden - from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's. Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, [1837], approx. page size 20.5 x 12.5 cm, approx. image size 9 x 14 cm, nice hand coloring, drawn by Vanderburch. Roux66 1837 print KOSCIUSZKO'S GARDEN, WEST POINT, NEW YORK STATE, #66 Print from steel engraving titled Jardin de Kosciusco - Kosciuszko's Garden - from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, [1837], approx. page size 20.5 x 12.5 cm, approx. image size 9 x 14 cm, nice hand coloring, drawn by Vanderburch. Kosciusco's Garden is situated on Hudson river near West Point Military Academy. From a set of illustrations for Roux de Rochelle's work on the United States. Roux de Rochelle, the French Minister to the U.S., included this volume in a large series entitled L'Univers. The American volume included 96 images of the United States and it was first issued in 1837. Beginning in 1839 the plates were reissued in several French editions, as well as editions in Italian, Spanish and German. Koshciuszko, Tadeusz, in full TADEUSZ ANDRZEJ BONAWENTURA KOShCIUSZKO, English THADDEUS KOSCIUSKO (b. Feb. 4, 1746, Mereczowszczyzna, Poland [now in Belarus]--d. Oct. 15, 1817, Solothurn, Switz.), Polish army officer and statesman who gained fame both for his role in the U.S. War of Independence and for his leadership of a national insurrection in his homeland. Early life. Koshciuszko was born to a family of noble origin and was educated at the Piarist college in Lubieszów and the military academy in Warsaw, where he later served as an instructor. Koshciuszko's outstanding abilities soon attracted the attention of King Stanislaw II Augustus Poniatowski, who sent him to Paris for further study in military and civil architecture and in painting. Returning home in 1774, he taught drawing and mathematics to the daughters of a general, Józef Sosnowski; he fell in love with Ludwika, one of the daughters, and tried unsuccessfully to elope with her. U.S. War of Independence. Facing the wrath of Ludwika's father, Koshciuszko fled to France, and in 1776 he went to America, where he joined the colonial forces fighting for independence from the British. That August he was transferred to the Pennsylvania Committee of Defense in Philadelphia, where he took part in planning fortifications to defend the residence of the Continental Congress against the British. For this work he was given the rank of engineer colonel. In spring 1777, he was assigned to the army of General Horatio Gates at Fort Ticonderoga, in northern New York. Beginning in July he became active in Gates's army, closing by fortifications all roads along the Hudson River and thus contributing to the capitulation of the British army under General John Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 17. He spent the next two years fortifying West Point, N.Y., where in March 1780 he was appointed chief of the engineering corps. That summer, serving under General Nathanael Greene in North Carolina, he twice rescued the army from enemy advances by directing the crossing of the Yadkin and Dan rivers. In the spring of 1781 in South Carolina, he conducted the Battle of Ninety-six and then a lengthy blockade of Charleston. At the end of the war he was given U.S. citizenship and was made a brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
