A sketch which was given by the Marquis de Lafayette to the first American president George Washington sold for $1.6m (£1.22m) at an auction in Philadelphia earlier today.
together with two further works, one by Major-General James Pattison Cockburn (1779-1847), signed J P Cockburn lower right and inscribed, signed and dated View in the Colosseum, Rome/ 1817 J P ...