Entrance to Gettysburg--sharpshooting from the houses – 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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A window into the past: Entrance to Gettysburg--sharpshooting from the houses, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Entrance to Gettysburg--sharpshooting from the houses
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Waud drew this scene at the edge of Gettysburg, where fighting on July 1, 1863, spilled into the town's streets and yards. The title points to a particular danger of that day: men firing from the windows and outbuildings of ordinary houses, which turned every fence line and back lot into a place of cover and fear. Waud, a staff artist for *Harper's Weekly*, worked on the field and sent sketches like this back to be engraved, so the drawing offers a firsthand view of how the battle looked to soldiers moving into town. The pencil and white highlights on brown paper give it the quick, reportorial feel of his battlefield work.
| Created / published | [1863 July] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on light brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 17.8 x 24.1 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: AR Wau[d]. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.38). Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Sharpshooting--1860-1870. Guerrillas--Confederate--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,440 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217043 |
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