Gettysburg battlefield – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This antique engraving of Gettysburg battlefield 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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The plowing scene sets this engraving apart from the other Gettysburg views on this board: a farmer works a field where the armies fought in July 1863, with the battle nearly two decades in the past. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ran it across two pages on June 24, 1882, part of a period when weekly picture papers regularly sent readers images of the former battlefield. By then the land had largely returned to cultivation, and the fields, fences and stone walls that once sheltered soldiers had become ordinary farm ground. The engraving shows how quickly working farms reclaimed the ground, even as veterans and visitors began to treat it as a place of memory.
| Created / published | 1882 June 24. |
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| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1882 June 24, pp. 280-281. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields. Battlefields--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1880-1890. Plowing--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-191624 |
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