A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep
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Its title points to a specific body found among the boulders near Devil's Den, on the southern edge of the Gettysburg battlefield, where Confederate sharpshooters had fired from the rocks. Timothy O'Sullivan, working with Alexander Gardner's team, made the picture in the days after the fighting ended, and the man's position and the rifle beside him were arranged for the camera. Gardner later reproduced it in his *Photographic Sketch Book of the War*, one of the first widely circulated sets of images showing the real aftermath of a battle. The staging is worth noticing, since it shapes the picture's meaning as much as its subject does.
| Original scan | 2,400 × 1,792 px · prints to 8 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00087u |
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