On picket--Officers' quarters in log house / EF. – Antique Print
(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 On picket--Officers' quarters in log house / EF., a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On picket--Officers' quarters in log house / EF.
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A pencil sketch dated March 15, 1863, places the viewer at Potomac Creek, Virginia, where the Union army maintained a supply depot and camps near Fredericksburg. Its caption, "On picket: Officers' quarters in log house," points to a small outpost where officers lived in a log building while their men stood guard nearby. The initials "EF" likely belong to Edwin Forbes, an artist who recorded army camp life in the field during the war. Sketches like this were often drawn on the spot, so they capture the rough, everyday texture of winter encampments that later painted or printed images often smoothed over.
| Created / published | 1863 Mar. 15. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Notes | Potomac Creek |
| Subjects | Va."--on mat. Gift |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,472 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218147 |
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