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Godefroy, François [engraver]. ENGRAVING OF THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL BURGOYNE TO GENERAL HORATIO GATES FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA, OCTOBER 17, 1777. Paris, c. 1784. After a drawing by Louis François Sébastien Fauvel (1753–1838). Sheet measures 23 by 20 cm; fine pictorial engraving with integral text engraved below. Housed in custom-made black cloth folder lettered in gilt. Fine. A fine French engraving by François Godefroy (c. 1743–1819) commemorating the first of two surrenders of a British Army to an American General (the other, of course, being Cornwallis's surrender to Washington at Yorktown). Ex Cardinal Collection Library.