The bombardment of Port Hudson / painted by E. Packbauer. – Antique 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 The bombardment of Port Hudson / painted by E. Packbauer., a historic print 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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The bombardment of Port Hudson / painted by E. Packbauer.
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Port Hudson, Louisiana, sits on high bluffs above a sharp bend of the Mississippi River, which made it a strong position for Confederate artillery during the Civil War. This color halftone reproduces a painting by E. Packbauer of a naval bombardment there, the kind of river fighting that Union gunboats and Confederate shore batteries carried on in 1863. Because it dates from about 1902, decades after the fighting, it shows how later artists and publishers pictured the war's river battles, with smoke, gun flashes, and dramatic water. It is also worth noticing how a painted scene was turned into a mass-printed halftone to reach a wider public.
| Created / published | c1902 Mar. 3. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | F7073 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Naval warfare--Louisiana--Port Hudson--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations--Union. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations--Confederate. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218323 |
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