These ii prints based on William Tylee Ranney's painting Marion Crossing the Peede offer an instructive comparison of very different methods of reproducing Revolutionary War art for very unlike audiences. Ranney exhibited Marion Crossing the Peede at the American Fine art-Union in 1851. The system promptly commissioned Charles Yard. Burt to engrave the image on a steel plate to produce a faithful, detailed reproductive print, which was distributed to the members of the arrangement. The print is 17.i by 13.6 inches—a modest size—but takes advantage of the chapters of the steel plate to depict fine details on a small scale. Notice that the engraver has skillfully reproduced the reflections in the water beside the gunkhole. No tape of the the size of the edition printed from Burt's plate is known, just the print run was probably in the hundreds.

This Charles Kennedy Burt engraving reproduces William Tylee Ranney's Maron Crossing the Peede.

Marion Crossing the Peede, steel engraving by Charles Kennedy Burt, New York: American Art-Spousal relationship, 1851), Gilcrease Museum.

The second of the ii prints of Marion is a lithograph produced and sold past Currier & Ives in the 1870s. The firm advertised its products every bit "colored engravings for the people." Currier & Ives produced millions of lithographs for the popular market between 1835 and 1907. Thousands of prints might be pulled from a single etched stone. They were unremarkably mitt colored. A impress of this size (about 18 past 13 inches) sold for about 20 cents in the 1870s. The lithographer took considerable liberties with the composition, simplifying the background and eliminating several background figures. The remaining figures are far more than crowded than in Ranney's painting or in the American Art-Union steel engraving.  Far more people saw this version of Ranney's painting than saw the original or the engraving.

This Currier & Ives lithograph reproduces William Tylee Ranney's Marion Crossing the Peede.

Marion'south Brigade Crossing the Peedee River, S.C. 1778, lithograph, New York: Currier & Ives, no date [ca. 1872-1876], American Antiquarian Society.