The Chickahominy Swamp – Vintage Print
![The Chickahominy Swamp, [1862] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/24b4366e4bc8-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: The Chickahominy Swamp, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Chickahominy Swamp
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Lightning splits the sky over the Chickahominy Swamp in this 1862 watercolor, a view of the slow, tangled river bottoms east of Richmond, Virginia. The work is part of the Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress, and its date places it in the middle of the Civil War. That spring and summer, Union forces under George B. McClellan fought and camped across these flooded lowlands during the Peninsula Campaign, where the swamp's mud and standing water slowed troop movements and wore down soldiers. Storm scenes like this one show how much weather and terrain shaped those campaigns.
| Created / published | [1862] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Lightning--1860-1870. Storms--Virginia--Chickahominy River--1860-1870. Chickahominy River (Va.) --1860-1870.United States--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,806 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220249 |
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