Washington, Lafayette, and Tilghman at Yorktown, Etching by Albert Rosenthal after Peale, Signed Proof Plate, 1898

Presented is a signed, plate proof etching portrait of George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, and Tench Tilghman at Yorktown by Albert Rosenthal. The print, a proof etching, was published in Philadelphia in 1898 and is modeled after a 1784 painting by Charles Willson Peale. Rosenthal has signed in pencil at the lower right of the image. "No. 8" is written in pencil below a remarqued scroll with "Articles of Capitulation...Oct. 19th 1781." Peale's etched signature is at lower left of the image. The etching depicts all three men in full length figure, in uniform. General George  Washington stands most prominent, with his left hand gloved and thrust into his jacket and his right hand is resting upon the hip. To the right are full length depictions of Lafayette and Tilghman. Tilghman holds a scroll, meant to symbolize the 1781 Yorktown Articles of Capitulation, in his left hand. The background is filled with a camp table, tent, and soldiers drilling.  In October 1781, British General Cha