The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge / McIlvaine. – Historic 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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The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge / McIlvaine. comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 - Sumners Upper Bridge / McIlvaine.
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Rather than a battlefield or a camp, this watercolor shows a night view of Sumner's Upper Bridge over the Chickahominy River in Virginia, with the moon lighting the water and the crossing. The river ran through the country east of Richmond, and in 1862 it lay along the route of the Union army's Peninsula Campaign, when both armies fought in the swampy bottomlands nearby. Works from that year often recorded the landscape of the fighting, and this quiet, moonlit scene offers a view of the same ground in a far calmer mood than the war reports suggest.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana / Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 91. |
| Subjects | Moonlight--1860-1870. Bridges--Virginia--Chickahominy River--1860-1870. Chickahominy River (Va.)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,687 × 3,816 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220232 |
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