Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes. – Vintage Print
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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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This historic drawing of Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes.
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Troops cooking supper across the open fields, while a column marches off the road and over a distant hill, give this drawing its quiet mood at the end of a day's march. Edwin Forbes made it as one of the plates for *Life Studies of the Great Army*, a series published in 1876 that drew on the sketches he had made in the field with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Forbes was drawn to the ordinary routines of soldiering, such as marching and camp life, more than to battle, and the pencil and opaque white here capture the settling of a bivouac at dusk.
| Created / published | [ca. 1876] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil and Chinese white. |
| Genre | J.P. Morgan |
| Notes | Going into camp at night. The fields on all sides are covered with troops cooking supper |
| Subjects | and column of troops in the road marching on and disappearing over the hill in the distance"--on mount. Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,449 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216183 |
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