Skinkers Neck on the Rappanhannock below Fredericksburg, VA – Vintage Print
![Skinkers Neck on the Rappanhannock below Fredericksburg, VA, [1862 ca. December] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/02/02d014d225a7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Skinkers Neck on the Rappanhannock below Fredericksburg, VA, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Skinkers Neck on the Rappanhannock below Fredericksburg, VA
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Alfred R. Waud drew this wide, low view of the Rappahannock at Skinker's Neck, a bend in the river a short distance below Fredericksburg, Virginia. He worked in pencil and Chinese white on tan paper around December 1862, shortly after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when the armies faced each other across the river. Harper's Weekly printed the sketch on February 28, 1863, under the spelling "Skinners Neck." Waud was one of the magazine's staff artists who sent drawings from the front, and the sheet shows how the war's ground looked to the people who read about it at home.
| Created / published | [1862 ca. December] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 12.0 x 30.7 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Landscapes 1860-1870.Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, February 28, 1863, p. 140, as Skinners Neck. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.66) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862. Soldiers--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Virginia--Rappahannock RiverUnited States--Virginia--Fredericksburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,443 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219169 |
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