Painted Civil War battle scene with cannons and infantry – Historic Print
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Description
This rare historic image captures Painted Civil War battle scene with cannons and infantry in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Painted Civil War battle scene with cannons and infantry
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Rather than a camera record, this is a painted battle scene showing artillery pieces and infantry lines in action, a type of image that was popular in the decades after the Civil War as veterans and publishers sought to make the fighting vivid for people who had never seen a battlefield. The Gettysburg board it sits on suggests its subject is the 1863 fight in southern Pennsylvania, though the record does not name a specific artist or the exact moment depicted. Painted panoramas and illustrated views of this kind often mixed careful topography with dramatic composition, so the cannon crews and advancing soldiers are worth reading as interpretations shaped by their makers rather than eyewitness documentation.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,125 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | buddhakiwi-5 |
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