Shenandoah Valley from Maryland heights – Antique Wall Art
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Shenandoah Valley from Maryland heights. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Shenandoah Valley from Maryland heights
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Perched above the Potomac across from Harpers Ferry, Maryland Heights gave whoever held it a commanding view down the Shenandoah Valley, and this 1864 drawing captures that vantage in wartime. Worked in pencil and Chinese white on pale green paper, it reads as a quick field study rather than a finished landscape. The camps it shows resemble the Union encampments that filled the heights during the valley campaigns of 1864, when the corridor changed hands again and again. Its long, narrow format suits the broad sweep of ground that officers and topographical draftsmen needed to record.
| Created / published | [1864] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on light green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 17.5 x 50.3 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Landscapes 1860-1870.Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Military camps--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields.United States--Virginia--Maryland HeightsUnited States--Virginia--Shenandoah ValleyUnited States--Virginia--Potomac River |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,451 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219367 |
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