[Sketch of a dead horse] – Historic Reproduction
![[Sketch of a dead horse], [between 1860 and 1865] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/20/200043c225a2-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: [Sketch of a dead horse], preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Sketch of a dead horse]
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A small pencil drawing on a sheet of white paper, measuring a little under nine by thirteen centimeters, shows a horse lying dead. The subject heading places it in the Civil War years, roughly 1860 to 1865, when horses died by the thousands in cavalry charges, artillery work and camp conditions on both sides. Drawings like this one, made quickly and at small scale, were often done by soldiers or artists with the armies, who recorded what they saw in the field. Its plain, unembellished treatment of a carcass is worth noticing, since the war's animal casualties were rarely the focus of its published imagery.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on white paper : pencil ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Dead animals--1860-1870. Horses--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Animals.United States |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112846 |
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