Antique American Painting of Monument Square, Baltimore, after Augustus Köllner
£1,400
oil on canvas, showing the square with the famous Battle Monument
19th century
The Battle Monument in Battle Monument Square commemorates those who fell in the Battle of Baltimore against the British fleet in 1814 and was designed by J. Maximilian Godefroy, architect to the Court of Spain and was erected 1815-25
This view is taken from Augustus Köllner’s 1848 image of the square
