Civil War cannon with wheels in falling snow – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Civil War cannon with wheels in falling snow brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Civil War cannon with wheels in falling snow
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A cannon sits on its carriage with its wheels half buried in drifting snow, and that stillness is what sets this view apart from the sunlit battlefield scenes that dominate the Gettysburg collection. Photographers and printmakers in the decades after the war often returned to the field's artillery, since the guns, caissons, and monuments were among the most visible remnants of the July 1863 fighting. Snow on the battlefield changes the mood entirely, softening the iron and hiding the ground the armies once fought over. Worth noticing is how the wheels and carriage read as the most solid thing in the frame while the falling flakes blur everything behind them.
| Original scan | 2,692 × 2,164 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | diskychick 1 |
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