The harvest of death - Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 [Dead soldiers and horses on battlefield] – Antique Wall Art
![The harvest of death - Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 [Dead soldiers and horses on battlefield], 1865 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/46/460a80dd489d-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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This antique engraving of The harvest of death - Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 [Dead soldiers and horses on battlefield] brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The harvest of death - Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 [Dead soldiers and horses on battlefield]
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Few images from Gettysburg show the aftermath as bluntly as this one, which turns a battlefield on the Fourth of July, 1863, into a field of dead soldiers and horses. It is a wood engraving made from a photograph by Alexander Gardner, and it appeared in *Harper's Weekly* on July 22, 1865, two years after the battle. Magazines of that period could not print photographs directly, so engravers carved them into blocks, which let readers see the war's dead at a time when many Americans still wanted to know what the fighting had cost.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving after photograph by Alexander Gardner. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 9, (1865 July 22), p. 452. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,065 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152473 |
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