General Meade and his staff / from a photograph by Brady. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with General Meade and his staff / from a photograph by Brady., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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General Meade and his staff / from a photograph by Brady.
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Shown with his staff rather than alone, George Gordon Meade appears in a wood engraving made from a photograph by Mathew Brady. The image ran in *Harper's Weekly* on July 23, 1864, a year after Meade's victory at Gettysburg, a battle fought only days after he took command of the Army of the Potomac. Newspapers could not yet print photographs directly, so engravers cut the design into a wood block, and readers saw a hand-carved translation of Brady's original. Pairing the general with his officers also presented Meade as the head of an organized army, not a single hero.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1864 July 23, p. 469. |
| Subjects | Meade, George Gordon,--1815-1872. Military officers--Union--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,253 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190828 |
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