[Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield], 1863 July. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a9728b303b53-L.webp)
(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: [Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield]
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Here the camera turns on the working press at Gettysburg: Alfred R. Waud, an illustrator for *Harper's Weekly*, sits at his sketching work on the battlefield in July 1863. Readers of the period mostly saw Waud's drawings rather than photographs, because weekly magazines could not yet reproduce photographic images directly and relied on wood engravings cut from artists' sketches. The stereograph format, with its pair of side-by-side glass negatives, was designed to give viewers a sense of depth, and this view records one of the many artists and correspondents who followed the army after the battle.
| Created / published | 1863 July. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. |
| Genre | Glass negatives 1860-1870.Stereographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0198 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 77. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. War correspondents.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109120 |
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